Coaching practices for Okrs for People Not Just Companies When Starting Out

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  • My whole job search is just refreshing job boards and firing off applications into the void, competing with hundreds of strangers for whatever happens to be posted
  • I keep hiring for the most impressive resume and then watching them work purely transactionally, and I want to start screening for whether someone actually believes in what we’re doing
  • I’ve got a new hire starting and the lazy move is to just hand them whatever’s piled up in the backlog
  • I’m chasing a dozen goals at once and none of them are moving, because I’m spread so thin nothing builds momentum
  • I say we exist for one thing, but when I look honestly at where my time and money and hiring actually go, they’re optimizing for something else

Practices that may help

  1. OKRs for People, Not Just Companies
    OKRs pair an Objective — a qualitative, ambitious statement of what you want — with a few measurable Key Results that prove you got there. The framework is best known from Intel and Google as an organizational tool, but its core moves (ambitious goals, hard metrics, a regular review cadence) rest on goal-setting principles that have genuine research support.
  2. Build and work a target list of roles and organisations
    Replace passive job board browsing with active research into specific organisations you want to understand.
    Informational Interviews: Career Research That Builds Your Network
  3. Hire people who share the Why, not just the skills
    Skills can be learned; shared belief cannot — filtering for Why-alignment at hiring is the highest-leverage culture move.
    Start With Why: Leading Through Purpose
  4. Use genius mapping in onboarding
    Surface a new hire’s geniuses early so you design their role around energy, not just skills.
    The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
  5. Limit how many you run at once
    Keep to a handful of Objectives so the framework concentrates effort instead of scattering it.
    OKRs for People, Not Just Companies
  6. Use the Why as a decision filter
    A stated Why that doesn’t actually filter decisions is just branding — the Why has to determine the choices.
    Start With Why: Leading Through Purpose
  7. Use Start-Stop-Keep reviews to drive continuous improvement
    Regularly ask what the team should start, stop, and keep doing — and act on the answers.
    The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus
  8. Make core values operational, not decorative
    Use core values in hiring, recognition, and decision-making — not just on the website.
    The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus
  9. Build the network before you need it
    Invest in relationships continuously so you have real capital when a crisis or opportunity arrives.
    Never Eat Alone: Building a Real Network
  10. Maintain Why consistency across boom and crisis
    The Why is tested not in good times but when it is costly to uphold — that is when it either becomes real or becomes revealed as rhetoric.
    Start With Why: Leading Through Purpose

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