Sales teams work with numbers every single day.
Any new sales, number of demos given and meetings held, churn rates, MRR, or sales calls are usual business metrics that the majority of the sales teams keep in their sight and aim for.
The numbers provided are just KPIs or metrics that help understand how your team is performing.
But these KPIs don’t clearly show where a team needs improvement. You want the sales numbers to be skyrocketing, but how?
That’s where OKRs come into the picture, the goal-setting tool used by sales teams and all the other departments in an organization. The sales OKRs motivate the team as a whole and help attain ambitious goals with measurable results.
Setting OKRs enables sales professionals to set objectives and their key results to explain the roadmap toward success. The method also allows check-ins, weekly or monthly, to measure the results till date to connect to the bigger picture.
The sales OKR examples below will help you in brainstorming and give you an overview of how to set OKRs for your sales team: