Sara Lobkovich, J.D., NBC-HWC

You Are a Strategist OKR Book | Useful Strategy — Sara Lobkovich This OKR book helps you create clear expectations, focus, and connect strategy to daily behavior to results, with connected strategy and No-BS OKRs

Organizations need more than *just* OKRs.

Many orgs need an “alignment layer” — including OKRs — that bridges high-level strategy and daily decisions and delivery.

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#Booksky #OKRs #OrganizationalPerformance

You Are a Strategist OKR Book | Useful Strategy — Sara Lobkovich This OKR book helps you create clear expectations, focus, and connect strategy to daily behavior to results, with connected strategy and No-BS OKRs

The strategist in you may have asked "why?" so many times as a kid that someone finally snapped back "because I said so!"

(It still stings.)

That curious, questioning little you is still inside you.

Your "I wonder…" is a gift.

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#Strategy #AmReading #AtWork

... and I can draw a straight line directly from that day to today. Working with this assessment and model just never gets old.

Oh, saving you a click -- here's a basic overview of the conflict model and framework:

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#TKI #Conflict #HealthyConflict #ConflictHandling

I took the assessment myself for the first time in 2007 during my mediation training, and it rocked me. Seeing my conflict handling defaults (and gaps) on paper was a huge eye opener ...

#LeaderDevelopment

One of my actual favorite things is administering the Thomas–Kilmann Conflict Mode
Instrument (TKI) to a team that I've just started to get to know and having the team report come out *exactly* how I'd predicted.

#CareerDevelopment

You Are a Strategist OKR Book | Useful Strategy — Sara Lobkovich This OKR book helps you create clear expectations, focus, and connect strategy to daily behavior to results, with connected strategy and No-BS OKRs

Workplaces often (wrongly) conflate "strategic" with "smart."

Rob Estreitinho nails it:

"The job isn't to convince people that you're smart, it's to clarify situations so everyone can do the smart thing."

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#CareerDevelopment #Strategy

Let's talk about leading indicators of progress, and why they're important for knowing whether our lagging outcomes are on or off track.

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#OKRs #StrategicPlanning #Objectives

Strategic anchors are the most enduring, the most important, the things that you really have to maintain focus on, no matter how chaotic the environment is that you're operating in.

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#Podcast #leadership #LeadershipDevelopment

You Are a Strategist OKR Book | Useful Strategy — Sara Lobkovich This OKR book helps you create clear expectations, focus, and connect strategy to daily behavior to results, with connected strategy and No-BS OKRs

A performance mindset values *doing measurably better* over having numbers that "look good."

Impact over appearance.

When leaders create safety to measure what matters, teams can share data about the truth of progress, not just positive spin.

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#ResultsFocus #Leadership

Most organizations have strategic plans gathering digital dust. The Connected Strategic One-Sheet simplifies what’s critical to keep top of mind -- consolidating your vision and key metrics onto one page.

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#Strategy #Leadership

“My supervisor says I'm not meeting expectations but won't tell me what they are. Help?”

Create your own draft goals aligned to company priorities. Share them with your leader: 'Are these aligned with your expectations?'

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#CareerDevelopment

For my neurodivergent peeps struggling #AtWork :

Your "overthinking" may actually be strategic or systems thinking.

Your "too many questions" might be quality assurance and risk reduction.

Your brain sees what others may miss.

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#Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD

After spending decades of my career trying to divine what was expected of me, I stopped trying to mind-read and started creating my own inspired, measurable goals.

It changed everything: my job satisfaction and focus rebounded.

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#CareerDevelopment #StrategicInfluence

Thank you for the share, @motomatters.com !

You Are a Strategist OKR Book | Useful Strategy — Sara Lobkovich This OKR book helps you create clear expectations, focus, and connect strategy to daily behavior to results, with connected strategy and No-BS OKRs

Leaders go first with vulnerability:

"I don't know"

is more powerful than pretending to have all the answers.

Psychological safety starts with leaders admitting their own learning edges.

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#Leadership #PsychologicalSafety

You Are a Strategist OKR Book | Useful Strategy — Sara Lobkovich This OKR book helps you create clear expectations, focus, and connect strategy to daily behavior to results, with connected strategy and No-BS OKRs

Your team's confusion about priorities isn't their failure to listen. It's your chance to clarify what matters most.

Leadership is translation: from vision to direction to expectations; from complex to clear.

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#Leadership #ProfessionalDevelopment

God grant me 3% of the chutzpah of a writer who posts page one of their first draft on r/writing asking for feedback

(meanwhile I have an actual published book that I'm too self-conscious to talk about)

#AmWriting #SelfPublished #BookTalk #Booksky 💙 📚

You Are a Strategist OKR Book | Useful Strategy — Sara Lobkovich This OKR book helps you create clear expectations, focus, and connect strategy to daily behavior to results, with connected strategy and No-BS OKRs

The number one leadership responsibility? Creating clarity about what success looks like before the work begins.

Unclear expectations create anxiety. Clear expectations create confidence.

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#Leadership #ProfessionalDevelopment

In the span of about six weeks I’ve gone from

“Claude, break it down for me literally step by step”

in PowerAutomate to not using GPTs for help anymore because it’s easier to just write stuff than to correct the GPT’s work

and I don’t know if I’m proud of that or not

#automation #PowerAutomate

You Are a Strategist OKR Book | Useful Strategy — Sara Lobkovich This OKR book helps you create clear expectations, focus, and connect strategy to daily behavior to results, with connected strategy and No-BS OKRs

"I wish I understood how to succeed here"

👆🏼 One of the most expensive sentence in your organization.

Clear expectations aren't just nice-to-have. They're performance multipliers.

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#AtWork #CareerDevelopment

"If we're setting our OKRs up well, teams should be empowered to say no to other things that get thrown at them, and to work that doesn't align."

- OKR Coach Natalie Webb, on the Thinkydoers Podcast.

Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/AlFuR

#OKR #StrategyAchievement #ChiefOfStaff

Media Visibility and Entrepreneurship for Introverts & Neurodivergent Professionals | Thinkydoers Podcast Ep 50 — Sara Lobkovich Episode 50 of Thinkydoers features Peter Shankman, entrepreneur and founder of HARO, SOS, and Mental Capital Consulting. Learn how neurodivergent brains, introverts, and strategic thinkers can leverag...

New episode of Thinkydoers is live today... my *50th* episode!

Media Visibility and Entrepreneurship for Introverts and Neurodivergent Folks, with @petershankman.bsky.social !

Listen wherever you listen to podcasts, or at:

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#podcast #introvert #neurodivergent #entrepreneurs

Today we're going to flip the script on these things that tend to lead to challenged OKR implementations when it comes to taking the software-first approach.

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#OKRTracking #OKRsTool #OKRs

The goal isn't perfection; it's continuous improvement in how you align your team's efforts with your most important outcomes.

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#OKRs #StrategicPlanning #NoBSOKRs

Ruining the workplace by spreading the unthinkable idea that everyone is responsible for quantifiable impact, and that operating with clear, measurable expectations decreases subjective performance evaluation while yielding increased motivation, better bottom-line performance, & greater efficiency.

A dark mode email reading: Thank you for contacting Squarespace. My name is Kane and I would be glad to assist you today. We don't work with Clarity or CookieYes so are unable to provide guidance or support on those directly.

LOL so much for that

(Also cute that Clarity Support replied to my initial post in Threads saying they were there to help then never replied to my actual question OR multiple support requests. Not sure how I’m going to resolve it.)

I found it odd how narrow MS’s guidance was … they’ve added a couple other bolt-on options since the original announcement, but when they first announced there was only one.

Another web friend reco’d implementing consent initialization via GTM (which I didn’t know was a thing). Will report back!

Good morning from my sofa where I am reading research on neurodivergence and the workplace and crying

#neurodivergent #adhd #audhd #ActuallyAutistic

Good point, and will do.

I’ve used the built-in Squarespace cookie banner, and used Termly, and both were fine (without breaking my site).

This is niche, but

Is anyone else here dealing w/ @microsoft.com #MSClarity cookie consent enforcement shifts w/a squarespace website?

I tried implementing an approved CMP & despite much effort, it caused accessibilitiy issues. Their CMS page is silent on squarespace.

Has anyone solved for this?