Turning Objectives Into Results

Turning
Objectives
into Results
Smarter Methods for

Team Collaboration
Külli Koort
weekdone.com
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Do you manage or do you lead? 4

The Situation Has Changed, Here Is How 5
Common Challenges Leaders across the Globe Face 6
Do You Know What Your Employees Really Think? 8
Here Is What People Expect from You 9
Attacking the Challenging Situation 9
Here Is What You Can Expect 10
The foundation of success - Proper objectives 11

Which Is a Great Goal? 11
How Do Google, LinkedIn, and Sears Set Objectives? 12
What are OKRs? 13
How Does It Work? 13
The Best Practices to Keep in Mind 13
Here Is What You Can Expect 14
Implementing This in Your Team is Easy 15
How to lead your team towards the objectives 16

This is How You Should Plan Your Week 16
How Leaders at Skype and Facebook Know Their Teams’ Achievements? 17
What Exactly Is the PPP Process? 18
The Three Most Important Questions to Ask Your Team 19
The Best Practices to Keep in Mind 19
The Benefits of Weekly Progress Reports 20
Implementing This Technique in Your Team 21
Time to put the words into action 22
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Do you manage or do you

lead?
“You manage things; you lead people.”
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
Leadership and organized processes, and

management are a mix methodologies is still
of art and science. Gut an immense help to any
feeling and emotions leader who is eager to
are definitely important. build successful teams.
Having good tools,
How to align your team to work as one towards the goals? How to create efficiently
collaborating, more successful teams? Which methodologies and processes have
proven to work successfully?
These questions are in the focus of this eBook. Drawing from the feedback from
the clients of Weekdone who use our team management platform and research
performed across the globe, we aim to provide practical suggestions that you can
implement today.
Eliminate distractions and take 20 minutes off to get a glimpse into smart
techniques and processes that will help you lead your people towards the goals.

The Situation Has Changed, Here Is How
For years, spending long could we instead get

hours at work has been more things done in less
held in high regard. Times time? And it’s about time
are changing and many to question the archaic
leaders now question, leadership methods.
The situation today is very different from 10 years ago. The type of leadership that
drove past success is no longer sufficient. The needs, processes, and methods have
changed and the growing expectations are making it increasingly difficult.
What kind of changes are we talking about?
• There is a growing dissatisfaction over a lack of feedback. 79% of those who quit
their jobs cite the lack of appreciation as the main reason.
• Employees want more meaningful tasks in order to give a significant input.
According to the American Psychological Association’s survey*, less than a half
(47%) of employers regularly seek information from their employees.
• Leaders need to be more strategic. 12% of the companies with a strategic plan
are more successful, but 90% of the employees don’t have a clear understanding
about their objectives at work.
• Employee engagement keeps dropping. According to the 2012 Global Workforce
Study**, only 35% of the overall workforce is truly engaged.
• Effective internal communications plays a bigger role in success. 29% of the
rise in a company’s market value can be achieved by improvement of internal
communication effectiveness.
• Employees want granular real-time updates and they want it on the go. The
most common mistake in management is the lack of communication between
staff and leaders.
* http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2013/03/employee-needs.aspx
** http://www.towerswatson.com/en/Insights/IC-Types/Survey-Research-Results/2012/07/2012-Towers-Watson-Global-
Workforce-Study

The situation today is very different from 10 years ago. The type of leadership that
drove past success is no longer sufficient. The needs, processes, and methods have
changed and the growing expectations are making it increasingly difficult.
Common Challenges Leaders across the Globe Face
Inside the organization you growth. Externally, you

need to lead a diversified also need to keep up with
group of people, work competitors, manage
across organizational stakeholders’ expectations
boundaries. You constantly and operate in a complex
need to improve efficiency globalized environment.
and achieve the necessary
A research by the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)*** points out 6 most
common challenges leaders across the world face:
• Developing Managerial Effectiveness - How to be more effective at work and

develop skills such as time management, prioritization, strategic thinking, and
decision-making?
• Inspiring Others - How to motivate the workforce to work smarter?
• Developing Employees - How to develop others with mentoring and coaching?
• Leading a Team - How to tackle the challenge of team-building, team
development, and management?
• Guiding Change - How to manage, understand, and lead a change?
• Managing Internal Stakeholders and Politics - How to gain managerial
support, manage relationships and politics?
These challenges place a heavy burden on your shoulders. Although they might
vary by country and by organisation, the most common ones are related to efficient
team management. After all, team members need to work together for a company
to be profitable.
*** http://www.ccl.org/leadership/pdf/research/ChallengesLeadersFace.pdf

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2 Stakeholders Leading a Team Stakeholders
Others Effectiveness Employees Others (20.8%)
(22.2%) (18.9%) (19.0%)
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and Politics
(20.5%) (24.0%)
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3 (17.0%) (17.0%) Effectiveness
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Mobilizing
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Others Others Leading a Team Guiding Change
5 Stakeholders (17.9%) (17.0%)
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and Politics (16.0%) (15.0%) and Politics (15.1%)
(17.2%) (16.0%)
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Managing Leading Managerial Leading
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Selection (14.0%) Effectiveness
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10 Guiding Change conflict Collaboration Performance Stakeholders With Less
(10.1%) (9.4%)
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One of our goals at Weekdone.com has always been©2014
to Center
help leaders build better,
more successful teams through efficient processes. In the course of the years
when we have been developing the progress reporting platform, we have searched
and tested a lot of different management techniques. What we have learned is
that in order to overcome these challenges, you need to manage people and their
expectations efficiently through working processes and methods.
**** http://www.ccl.org/leadership/pdf/research/ChallengesLeadersFace.pdf

Do You Know What Your Employees Really Think?
As a leader or manager, team thinks and expects.

you always have some kind You act based on your gut
of an opinion of what your feeling.
What might surprise you is that quite often your opinion is wrong. Your team might
have a completely different mind-set on the business, the company, even on you as
a person.
People change their minds and opinions fast, so, as a leader, your task is to be in
continuous contact with your employees.
In an ideal world, we as managers believe we know quite clearly what our

employees do and think, what their plans, progress, and problems are. Often, that
assumption is formed without much real communication or feedback, be it online
or offline.
At Weekdone.com we’ve set the task to understand what employees really think of
their managers. Are managers and employees on same wavelengths like psychics?
We went out to the streets and asked the people – a whole 1000 of them – to find
out. Here are the most common answers:
My manager ...
does not know what I've accomplished 8.8%
does not know what my current tasks are 7.5%
overloads me with too many tasks 7.0%
does not give feedback on my tasks 6.4%
does not know which problems I'm facing 5.8%
Question: What do you mostly dislike about your manager's practices towards you at work?
Survey by Weekdone.com

Here Is What People Expect from You
Teams nowadays expect more freedom. They want to be involved in important

decision-making processes and with every right. Your people have amazing ideas
and insights, you just need to ask for them.
Another immensely important thing that employees want at work is more

feedback and they need it continuously, not just bi-annually. They also expect
more recognition for a job well done and concern for their personal well-being.
You can’t limit yourself to knowing only about your team’s progress but also need
an overview of their happiness and satisfaction.
They expect clear objectives and goals, because results are only as strong as the
objectives you set. Giving guidance based on the past is no longer vital. You also
need to study the future and know your team-members’ plans.
They expect an open and honest culture, where two-way communication is

celebrated and ideas flow freely. Most of all, they are willing to put in more hours
if they feel their time is not wasted. They expect you to provide the necessary tools
for the work that run smoothly and efficiently.
Attacking the Challenging Situation
How can we then be better managers and make teams happier? How can we
overcome these challenges and guide our people’s expectations?
In the following sections, we will give practical tips and proven techniques that will
help you overcome these challenges. Believe it or not, the answer is actually easier
than you think and we are going to cover it step by step.
It starts from correct processes that inspire to act. From setting clear objectives
to making sure you have a regular feedback mechanism, you will find the best

practices such as Google, Skype, and LinkedIn use to manage their teams. Processes
that put a great emphasize on two-way communication and help you gain necessary
information wherever you are.
All of this is strongly guided by what you need and what your people want.
Here Is What You Can Expect
What are the benefits you and your team can expect? As a leader you would like
to have a more productive team that gets things done. You want people who are
happy at work. You imagine a team that shares information openly and helps each
other. The guidelines, processes, and tools found in this eBook will help you:
• Quickly know what is happening in your team

• Increase productivity
• Make better, more informed decisions
• Guide your people more efficiently
• Measure what matters
For your team, we have one goal in mind. It is for them to love and enjoy every
single work day, so that they will be able to:
• Do more by doing less

• Be heard by their leader
• Get praise and hear from co-workers
How is all of that possible? Well, we encourage you to read further.

The foundation of success

- Proper objectives
“A goal properly set is halfway reached.”
- Zig Ziglar
Although there is nothing more basic in management than setting goals, it is also
one part that is often overlooked and dealt without a systematic approach.
Which goal is a great goal? How to communicate goals to your team? Which process
helps you keep an eye on the results? Find answers in the chapters below.
Which Is a Great Goal?
“You’re able to focus relentlessly on the one goal, the thing

that really matters. To get the company down to its simplest
possible state, I asked everyone to make a list of all the work
they do, identify what was most impactful, and then cut,
optimize or simplify everything else.”
- Jess Lee, CEO of the growing fashion e-commerce site Polyvore
Employees want clarity from their managers on which directions they should
be moving, while at the same time have freedom to choose the details of their
personal path. Leaders want to set their goals based on larger department and
company goals.
People often fail not for lack of ability or courage, but simply because they have not
organized their energies around a goal that is smart. A great objective is:

1. Specific
2. Measurable
3. Attainable
4. Realistic
5. Time-limited
A successful goal is a goal that works well with the organization’s priorities and
is set for helping the company. Setting up objectives goes hand in hand with
communicating them to your team.
How Do Google, LinkedIn, and Sears Set Objectives?
Do you know what the one thing that Google, LinkedIn, Intel, Zynga, Oracle, Twitter,
and Sears have in common is? What is behind the success of aligning their people
and teams to work as one towards goals?
It is the magical acronym OKRs – Objectives and Key Results. All of them use it and
love it.
Implemented initially in the 1970s by the President of Intel, Andy Grove, it later
spread across many tech companies. Nowadays, it is used by teams and whole
companies from SMEs to the Fortune 500.
“We put the whole company on that, so everyone knows their

OKRs and that is a good, simple organizing principle that
keeps people focused on the three things that matter - not the
10.”
- Marc Pincus, CEO of Zynga

What are OKRs?
OKRs are one of the best their VC John Doerr, OKRs

methods in the field of became a cornerstone
setting and monitoring of making Google’s
team and personal goals. management successful.
Introduced to Google by
Objectives and Key Results connect company, team, and personal objectives to
measurable results, making people move together in the right direction. A big part
of OKRs is making sure that each individual knows, what is expected of them at
work. OKRs are kept public to everyone, so teams move in one direction and know
what others are focusing on.
How Does It Work?
OKRs consist of a list of objectives. Under each objective, there are usually 3-4 key
measurable results. Each key result has a progress indicator or score of 0-100% or 0
to 1.0 that shows its achievement. As you achieve those results, the whole objective
is marked “done”.
Read more about OKRs on Weekdone’s Objectives and Key Results (https://
weekdone.com/resources/objectives-key-results) tutorial and examples page.
The Best Practices to Keep in Mind
For the best results, follow these guidelines for best practices:
• Set ambitious objectives, but do not have more than 2-4 goals at any time.
• Set 2-4 measurable key results per objective. Remember, they should be easy to
grade with a number. (Google uses a 0 – 1.0 scale to grade each key result at the

end of each quarter.)

• Make OKRs public and put them online for all employees to see. Everyone in the
company should be able to see what everyone else is working on.
• The “sweet spot” for an OKR grade is .6 – .7; if someone consistently gets 1.0,
their objectives are not ambitious enough.
• Review your OKRs on a monthly or even weekly basis.
Company objectives example ACME Corporation Objectives
• Company Objective One • Increase recurring revenues

Progress xyz % Progress: 50%
• Measurable key result 1 • Increase average subscription
• Progress: n1 % size to at least $295 per month
• Measurable key result 2 • Progress: 50%
• Progress: n2 % • Improve internal employee
• …. engagement - Progress: 61%
where Objective Progress xyz % = • Internal weekly satisfaction
average % (n1, n2, n3, ...) score of at least 4.8 points
• Company Objective Two Progress: 63%
• Measurable key result 1 • Start using OKR’s in all teams
• …. and departments
• ... Progress: 59 %
Here Is What You Can Expect
OKRs allow you to set company, team, and personal goals and attach measurable
results to them, which need to be achieved and measured. By doing that, you build
stronger, more successful teams that are focused on their goals and work as one.
For team members, personal objectives allow them to have a daily guideline and
decision-making mechanism to choose the most important tasks to work on.
As a manager, it is a great way for future performance appraisals, to see how well a

person’s progress is connected to their main goals. Or even better, instead of long-
term performance appraisals, use weekly employee reporting and long-term goals
to get away without the long-term appraisal process.
Implementing This in Your Team is Easy
Implementing OKRs in your team is easy. Just follow these 6 steps:
1. List 2-4 objectives you want to strive for on each level.

2. For each objective, list 3-4 key results to be achieved.
3. Communicate the objectives and key results to everyone.
4. Make sure people regularly update each result on a 0-100% scale.
5. When an objective’s result reaches 70-80%, consider it done.
6. Review OKRs regularly and set new ones.
The easiest way to implement OKRs in

your team right now is to sign up for a
trial of Weekdone.com.
Implementing OKRs in your company

is the best thing you can do today.
You will have a focused team moving
forward towards important goals and
measurable results. All visible in front of
everyone.
OKRs are a part of the regular planning

and progress reporting process. Find
out in the next chapter what this
progress reporting process should look like.

How to lead your team

towards the objectives
“1 hour of planning will save 10 hours of doing.”
Successful teams do not magically happen, they are created. The creation process
depends partly on powerful tools and methods. Keeping up with your team and
keeping them happy should be on top of your priority list.
As the ever-rising tidal wave of information has grown over our heads, it is hard
to keep up with all the data you receive on a regular basis. To remain steering
towards these business objectives, leaders need solutions that are reliable, easy to
implement, and enjoyable.
How to make sure that team members’ plans reflect future goals? Which processes
are most effective for monitoring whether these plans have been achieved? How
to collaborate efficiently and lead your team to success? You do not have to look
further for the answers, just keep reading.
This is How You Should Plan Your Week
Your teams’ each and every step should reflect the overall objective. Therefore, it is
important to focus on key items and tasks. At the beginning of each week, list just
5 key plans you definitely want to achieve. Make these the big, hairy goals. Forget
everything else. Sure, you will still have smaller tasks to handle, but make sure you
focus on the important ones first.
You can try out Weekdone.com to manage your week. List the 5-7 key “Plans” right
now. Then, as you achieve each of them, move them to “Progress”. Keep your
potential task ideas under “Plans on hold” and move them to “Plans” only when the

latter is beginning to get empty.
By having these 5 or so tasks for the week, you will be much happier on Monday
morning. 5 seems to be a limit that is always achievable. Just 1 item per day.
So, plan like this:

1. Focus on things you can control.
2. Write down ideas to get them out of your head.
3. Shun perfectionism in favor of doing-somethingism.
Case study: “Belfor, the worldwide leader in disaster recovery and

property restoration, faced a serious challenge to help people learn to
plan out their week, instead of just do the next thing in front of them.
So, they developed Team Objectives out of their monthly reviews,
and then kept those in front of their teams, and then they realized
that people are aiming for those objectives and working towards
those goals, instead of it being something that is talked about and
forgotten.”
Read more: https://blog.weekdone.com/belfor-recovers-disasters-with-the-

help-of-progress-report/
How Leaders at Skype and Facebook Know Their

Teams’ Achievements?
Do you know what processes are used at Skype, eBay, and Facebook in order to
understand their teams’ progress?
They all have used simple management technique called the 3 Ps, or in other words,
the Progress, Plans, Problems technique. It is used successfully at eBay and Skype
to set and communicate weekly plans in their team. Emi Gal from Brainient uses it
for investor updates.

“Each Friday, every member of the team sends out PPPs

to inform their team leader what they’ve been up to, what
they’re planning to do and what problems they have. It
works great because it keeps everyone in the team informed.”
- Emi Gal, Founder & CEO of Brainient
What Exactly Is the PPP Process?
Progress, Plans, Problems (PPP) is a management technique for regular (daily,

weekly, or monthly) status reporting. Each person usually reports 3-5 key
achievements, goals, and challenges - called progress, plans, and problems - from
the reporting period.
It is used in situations like employee to manager, team member to team, or CEO

to board, investors and advisors reporting. The goal of PPP reports is to bring
everyone on the same page regarding what is happening in your team.
Case study: “A team from The Whole Foods Market struggled with
staying connected. Their team supported 10,000 Team Members and
43 Stores across 7 states in the USA. So, they found the act of stopping
and writing down key accomplishments for the week was a healthy
task—it is easy to get caught up in all the work you did not get done.
It has been rewarding for the Team to stop and see what each of them
accomplished. And of course, publicly committing to clear, specific
goals gives some incentive for really sticking to it and getting them
done.”
Read more: https://blog.weekdone.com/whole-foods-market-improved-

meetings-by-weekly-progress-report/

The Three Most Important Questions to Ask Your

Team
The PPP process is really simple. It requires you to ask three essential questions
reflecting each of the Ps:
• Progress. Employee’s accomplishments, finished items, and closed tasks for the
ending period. Question to ask: What have you done?
• Plans. Goals and objectives for the next reporting period. These should become
Progress next week. Question to ask: What are you going to do next?
• Problems. Challenges. Items that are stuck and cannot be finished. Problems
often need help from someone else, not just the employee. Question to ask: Any
problems you are facing?
The Best Practices to Keep in Mind
One of the biggest problems when your team members report to you or fill in
various employee performance reports is the feeling that data is being sucked into
a black hole. There is no response from you, the manager. The times of annual
employee performance appraisals are over. You have to do it constantly. And
remember, it is a 2-way communication between you and your people.
Here are some tips how a good progress reporting process should look like:
• Seek input from your employees and give them feedback.
• Automate the process of weekly status report reminders, so you as the manager
do not have to chase people.
• Make it fast and simple to review and comment each person’s plans, progress,
and problems weekly.
• Make each item understandable by others, not just you. Keep the items short,
but rich in information.
• If needed, make sure your team uses facts, numbers, and background
information. External web links can be helpful.
• Encourage people to have a maximum of 5-7 items in each category, not more.

To get started with improvements in your team quickly, have a look at

Weekdone’s team feedback and employee reporting tool. It can help
you automate the process of 2-way feedback, save managerial time,
and be much more systematic.
The Benefits of Weekly Progress Reports
Using the PPP process is seamless and takes just a few minutes per week from
everyone, even less by using a tool like Weekdone. Progress reporting can be
a magic process to increase employee engagement. It can improve internal
communications, productivity, and team happiness. Using progress reports in your
team includes some amazing benefits:
• They are easy to read and write.

• Having weekly or monthly progress reports at hand can save hours of time spent
in useless meetings.
• Leaders and managers as well as team members often love to find out how their
co-workers are doing.
• These techniques make remote working possible.
• At the end of the day you will get a stronger team that focuses on what is
important.
Learn more from Weekdone’s Academy Progress, Plans and Problems (https://
weekdone.com/resources/plans-progress-problems) section.
Case study: “AgoraPulse, a global startup, was struggling with working

remote. Before the status reports, we were using Google Docs to
keep up with each other. That was just painful. But now, the progress
reports have allowed us to go remote and be very efficient in doing
so.” Read more:
https://blog.weekdone.com/status-reports-agorapulse-go-remote/

Implementing This Technique in Your Team
Implementing progress reports in your team can sound boring and annoying.
Actually, it is the complete opposite – when implemented right and in a modern
way. The world of business and work has changed and so has reporting.
It is up to you, the leader, to make your employees love the benefits of it. Based on
talking to countless customers of Weekdone’s progress reporting service, here are
the best practices to make progress reporting rock:
• Explain employee benefits and get a buy-in.

• Turn it into two-way communications.
• Spend less time on meetings.
• Give weekly reviews - online one-on-ones.
Weekdone is the simplest way to set up and automate the PPP process in your
team. Get weekly team reports in a beautiful, visual way on the web, e-mail, and
mobile.

Time to put the words

into action
Now, the ball is on your court. Leadership challenges are not going to disappear,
but you have the processes and methods to find the solutions. Why should you
choose and implement new technologies, processes, methods?
The answer is simple. You cannot afford not to, because

innovations are moving at a pace unlike at any time
in history. Just a decade ago, BlackBerry
was the smartphone market leader.
Now, smartphone innovation
has changed the way we
communicate and collaborate
and put endless information at the
fingertips of people.
Start leading your team efficiently by experimenting with new technology,

implementing established processes, and empowering people on the way.

weekdone.com
Weekdone is a progress reporting and a team management software based on
popular management methodologies like PPP and OKR.
Implementing Weekdone is instant. Just sign up for our

free trial at weekdone.com, invite employees and you’re all
done. In less than a week, you will get your first structured
employee progress report via e-mail from your people, one
that you can quickly give feedback on. Go and make your
people valued at work.
Get our app to be always up-to-date with your team status wherever you are. On
iPhone, iPad, and Android. Learn more at weekdone.com/mobile.


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In an ideal world, we as managers believe we know quite clearly what our

does not know what my current tasks are 7.5%

overloads me with too many tasks 7.0%

does not give feedback on my tasks 6.4%

does not know which problems I'm facing 5.8%

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Here Is What People Expect from You

Teams nowadays expect more freedom. They want to be involved in important

Another immensely important thing that employees want at work is more

They expect an open and honest culture, where two-way communication is

Attacking the Challenging Situation

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Here Is What You Can Expect

• Quickly know what is happening in your team

• Do more by doing less

How is all of that possible? Well, we encourage you to read further.

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The foundation of success

Which Is a Great Goal?

“You’re able to focus relentlessly on the one goal, the thing

- Jess Lee, CEO of the growing fashion e-commerce site Polyvore

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How Do Google, LinkedIn, and Sears Set Objectives?

Do you manage or do you lead? 4

The foundation of success - Proper objectives 11

How to lead your team towards the objectives 16

Time to put the words into action 22