Discovering Your Key Results

In determining your key results, ask, “What does success look like for this objective?” A common mistake when creating key results is to define activities instead of outcomes for key results. Your key results should measure a result, not effort. We define success as improving something and making an impact instead of completing a project or task. Making an impact can include sustaining a metric and increasing or decreasing a metric.

If you are having difficulty creating outcome-based key results and are stuck on activity-based key results, we suggest the following exercise to convert to an outcome based key result:

Think about the consequences of being successful with your activity based key result. What is the impact of completing this task or project?

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