How to add and define the details of a public objective

You can use Mirro to increase alignment within your organization with clear objectives and key results .

Imagine knowing what your company objectives are at all times. We made this possible with Mirro. Now, you can see every goal and key result. All transparent, organized by departments, teams, or people.

You can also align your colleague's efforts to company goals and boost both personal and group results.

1. Adding a new objective

Based on the role which you have in the application, different objectives can be added:

1. A basic user can add individual objectives;
2. A team leader user can add individual objectives and team objectives;
3. A department's coordinator user can add department, team and individual objectives;
4. A user with the access right -  goals management -  can add and edit objectives at all levels, including organization objectives;

To add an objective, you will need to access the Objectives module and access the option Add objective, available in any section of the module. 

 

A new form will be opened for you and you will need to fill in the details of the objective that you would like to add.

Imagine you would like to add a company objective to ensure an efficient level of high communication within the company. In this regard you will need to fill in the fields accordingly:

• Title: A short concise title to state the objective;
• Description: A short description of the objective;
• Type: Objective’s type, which can be individual, team, department or company;
• Owner: The person who owns the objective. By default your user will be assigned, but you can change it;
• Deadline: The deadline of the objective, the moment when you consider you will reach your goal;
• Visibility: Use public OKRs at the company level to keep things clear and assist people in demonstrating their impact;
  
  

 

When defining the objective you will be able to define the objective alignment as well, to make sure that your work has a direct impact. For example, the organizational objective can be a parent for a smaller one, a team objective. 

After filling in the fields, you will have the possibility to save the information, and the objective will be listed in the proper category. This objective will be listed in the Alignment section.  

 

2.0. Defining additional details of an objective:

After saving the changes, you will be brought to the details of the objective to finish the process. In this section, you have the possibility to: 

2.1. Visualize and edit the objective's details; 

2.2. To add contributors ensuring a teamwork effort; 

2.3. Define and update the key results of the objective; 

2.4. To visualize and edit alignment objective; 

2.5. To visualize the updated history of the objective and key results. 

2.1. Visualize and edit the objective's details: 

With Mirro is easy to keep an eye on the progress of the objective and even easier to decide if an objective has been reached or if it should be killed. From the objective page you will be able to send a nudge to the participants and to make any changes about the fields that you initially defined. 

2.2. Add a contributor to the objective:

Work as a team - Mirro encourages the team work by offering you the possibility to add multiple contributors to the objective so that you can reach your goal faster. 

To add a contributor you will need to access the option Add Contributor and you will be prompted to select from your database the users which you would like to add.  The contributor is a person who will help you to reach your goal, by contributing actively. After saving the changes, the new contributors will be listed in the objective details, offering you the possibility to remove them if it will be the case in the future.  

 

 

A contributor will be able to perform any updates for the key results. Only the owner of the objective will have the right to make any changes to the objective itself. 

 

2.3. Add a key result to the objective created:         

An objective can have from 2 to 5 key results which will help you to reach your goal.

Key results should focus on the outcome while being measurable with a concrete time schedule. 

 

Set accurate expectations - define better Key Results using custom measurement units and values, as well as automated Objective score updates, by filling in the following information:

• Title: A short concise title to state the key result;
• Description: A short description of the key result;
• Deadline: The deadline of the key result,  the moment when you consider you will finish your key result;
• Unit: The measurement unit of your key result. You have the freedom to choose any measurement unit that you consider suitable for your key result. You just need to type in the measurement unit and you are good to go;
• Start value and end value: The values that will help you to measure better your key result. The values will be used to calculate the score of the key result;

For the objective previously added, let’s imagine that one of the key results is to organize 20 workshops until a specific date for your company. The focus of the workshops will be on how to develop better communication within the departments. 

 

 

After filling in the details of the key result, you will need to save the changes to be reflected in the application.

When the key result will be saved, it will be listed in the details of the objective. Once a key result has been added to the objective, the progress of the objective can be completed only through the key result. To update the progress of the objective, you will need to access the option Update.

A new section will be opened to allow you to update the progress of the key result:

• Current value: You will be able to add the current value of the progress. Between the brackets it is listed the value proposed for the key result
• Comment (mandatory): You can make additional observations regarding the progress of the key result – by congratulating your colleagues on the achievement.
• Show this change on My Mirro and on contributor's profile: You have the possibility to select if this progress will be posted on the feed to be seen by the user, no matter the role of the user.

 

 

 

 

While being in the alignment chart, you can also access the Expand option to see the details of the other objectives that are linked with your current objective. For example, the objective of increasing employee retention by 2%, can be expanded because it is included in another alignment as well.

2.5. Keep track of the OKR history:

Specific updates history to share with everyone - never skip a beat about what happened with an OKR. How each update impacted the overall result, how you guys worked together, and all history in the objective updates section. 

You will be able to interact with each update or change, by enjoying the post, leaving a comment or sharing with the others to celebrate together the progress achieved.