OKR Meetup in Gdansk
First such international OKR meetup in Gdansk! Great occasion to meet people and get to know more about OKRs!
3 talks about OKRs in one evening, 50 participants from various companies, occasion to netwoek offline! Event will be in English
1. Henri Sora from Finland. Henri has co-authored the best-selling Finnish OKR book. The work has been adapted to French and, soon, into English. Henri is consulting large and small Finnish companies about strategy execution and OKR implementations. He has over 20 years of experience in IT and life sciences leadership positions. For example, he has been working as a CEO and COO. Linkedin profile
Henri's talk title: Augmenting OKRs for the Win
Objectives and Key Results are an excellent method to drive strategy execution in companies. We have an upward trend in OKR usage. Then again, OKRs aren't everything. Companies have visions, values, new methods of how to work, and other new developments that teams need to combine to their work. To make sense of all the aspects, I'll be introducing a concept called game plans. They have OKRs at heart, but OKRs are augmented with methods, values, and drivers.
2. Mira Vlach from Czech OKR Mastermind. Founder of Czech OKR Mastermind and a Freelance consultant in project management and strategy implementation. Mira is an experienced senior freelance consultant in project management and strategy implementation who helps with the tuning of project portfolio management for leading Czech and regional companies and organizations. He founded a Czech OKR Mastermind in 2021 and since then has been the driver of Czech OKR community. The Czech OKR Mastermind is focused exclusively on the Objectives & Key Results framework, brings together Czech companies working with the OKR framework and supports the adoption and exchange of best-practice of working with OKR. LinkedIn profile
Mira's talk title: OKRs and projects - how well do they go together?
The OKR (Objectives & Key Results) method is becoming an increasingly widespread approach to executing strategy. This presentation will offer the perspective of the founder of the Czech OKR Mastermind, Mira Vlach, who also specialises in project management. We will explore where, in Mira's view, are the strengths of the OKR framework, where are the hidden pitfalls, and what the linking of OKR goals with simpler and very complex strategic projects can look like.
3. Elena Zhukova and Mateusz Paprocki. Founders of OKR Poland.
Lena has 20 years experience with a focus on strategy, team leadership, and business transformations. She leads agile transformations, builds communities of practice, and leads meetups and training workshops. Lena supported her first OKRs program as an internal coach at Lufthansa Systems. Building off this success, she co-founded OKR Poland in 2021. She and her team have implemented OKRs with over ten companies in Poland. In addition to co-hosting "Coffees with OKRs," she is the co-author of Business Analysis Practicebook and teaches at several universities in Poland. Linkedin profile
Mateusz helps companies drive business goals by bridging a gap between strategy and execution using Objectives and Key Results (OKR). After 5 years of working with and perfecting OKRs inside a fast-growing, ambitious software development company, Neoteric, as well as consulting numerous startups, he has a deep understanding of the challenges and pitfalls of successful implementation. Currently acting as a COO @ Neoteric, responsible for company yearly OKRs, operations, and finance, co - founder of OKR Poland. Linkedin profile
Lena&Matt will talk about How to make cross-functiona teams work on the same goal?
Nowadays, we hear that one of the conditions for companies to become nimble and build products effectively is collaboration. To build the right things correctly, we need cross-functional teams working together to achieve the same goal. Easy to say, hard to implement? Right?
We observe that building diverse teams is quite often a weak point during strategy implementation. So, how to make it work?
It is not enough to just tell people from different departments like customer service, marketing, operations and development: please, come and work together. They have different ways of working, habits, functional leads, and even tools they use for task planning. A leader's facilitation is crucial. But how exactly do we make it work?
We will share some case studies from our experience of what works and what does not when we organize cross-functional teams to make them work towards the same goal.
Only real practical examples from our experience of building cross-functional teams!