We all know that Google has used OKR method since they had only 40 members when it was just in start-up state. And then, Google’s employees keep the routine until now they’re possessing more than 60.000 employees and value more than $500 Billion.

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You can be just like them, and here are 10 reasons why you should apply OKR right now into your team when you are still small.**

1. OKR creates the inspiration of company’s top goals down to the team

The visibility of your big goals from the vision, mission into quarterly goal helps all the executives and even members to have useful ideas of the solutions, how they should set up the tone and objectives for their own OKR, in order to align the suitable goals of organization. It creates the connection among individuals, teams and company.

2. Mindset is the foundation for everything

When your company is a startup, and just small, it is easy to align the mindset to your peers with the scale from 1-20, even from 40 – 100. With the size of 2,000, it takes more effort and time to roll out, many conversations to get your organization get used to, comfortable and master it.

It is always easier and more flexible to adjust small team than a big one.

3. Continuously reviewing and changing your process

With a small team, the most pro is that you are very flexible, and things happen in real-time. It’s a great chance to adjust, test and improve your process and structure that can maximize the productivity. With OKR, your team goals & key results are always visible to show that you are on track, healthy, or your action does not work.

4. Focusing can create strength

Since you are a startup, there will be various changes that you can pick up on the market, but sometimes these are arising opportunities to keep you away from your primary goals and make you fall into the wrong route. That could be harmful your business growing line. A small team can’t be divided to focus on different goals that do not serve the primary objective.

With OKR, it keeps all members of your team acknowledge and maintain things to be clear in regarding to concentrating and finding out the right way, how to achieve it.

5. Showing the way to achieve goals

You will never know whether you reach the goals or not when you don’t have a tool to assist you in finding out the right direction to go and measuring the success. When it is clear, keep fighting and achieving the goals required.

6. Showing the reality

Focusing on the goal and how to achieve it, that are critical ways, but knowing exactly your reality is also vital for your business. At early state, you don’t have much resources and time to waste. To realize how far you are from the goal, what your current process is, whether it is excellent to push further or not. Possessing this data to analyze and keep adjusting monthly or weekly indeed, that will help your team to have the best productivity in order to move in the right direction. Goalify makes sure that you don’t want to spend 3-6 months and realize that you are not on the right path or your team is not productive like you are expecting.

7. Building discipline

It could take 5-10 mins a week but can save your month and year time. Some teams just skip few minutes of quick catch-up, check-in or report. They said that there were too much tasks to do or some members are not comfortable to open up about what they are working on. That is a very bad habit to your business. Without updating, you don’t know what the process is, how far you are from your team and organization goals. Are you able to reach it or you need adjusting, changing the approach way? OKR check-in habit and transparency help you to highlight all the process, give you the precise summary for your next move.

8. Transparency help to see where the effort is duplicated

Support team to have clear communication and help them not to overlap the work! OKR helps you to kill the gap of miscommunication. You don’t need your team to pick up the phone every day, in order to ask what you are working on same objective. They just need going to the OKR board to check the objectives of related members of the team to avoid the duplicate work.

9. Engaging & being recognized

With clear & transparent process, it helps you and your team to recognize the effort and cheer up, applaud, congratulate one another when achieving the goals. This is such a way to light up and motivate the team. Not only that, it also helps each of members to make their contributions to the big team as well. It reflects your work and earns personal branding. Besides, you should cheer up yourself too.

10. Don’t make you fall into the trap of perfectionism

The biggest failing points of the startup is that they keep trying their best to enhance the product in the wrong context. Why am I saying that?

· Remember you don’t have big resources, and material support! It means that having something delivered to the market will be better than having nothing.

· Your goal settings always can be edited. And with the help of OKR, you will not be afraid of the lack of awareness in regarding to the adjust and changes. So, you don’t need to care about reaching perfectly your goal, the only one thing you need doing that is finding the right direction guiding your team.