Forest for the Trees

🌳 Forest for the Trees

Double your chances of achieving your goals.

focus on a strategic objective and its key results by brainstorming a list of 12 initiatives from simplest to most complex that can be implemented during the next quarter to meet the defined OKRs.

Participants will visualize their work using a tree diagram (or upright fishbone) that will visualize the actionable initiatives for the next quarter and grow successful business outcomes.

How to use this template

Activity instructions

  1. Download our template and review the instructions.

  2. Divide participants into smaller groups of 4-8.

  3. Create an objective related to an assigned topic.

  4. Each group will generate a list of 4-5 key results for their objective and fill in the Team Objectives and Results Worksheet.

  5. Each participant will fill out the Forest for the Trees Worksheet and write the objective on the base of the tree diagram.

  6. Participants should individually brainstorm 12 initiatives that could be carried out in the next quarter.

  7. Groups will then collaborate to create a single tree that represents the prioritized initiative agreed upon by all group members.

  8. Each group shares their finished trees.

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