Blog about Remote Work and OKRs
Anton Cherkasov on November 5th, 2021.
Hey, A new feature is coming. I’m excited to announce the 1:1 meetings at Focus. The 1:1 meetings help employees to grow and develop strong relationships with people. “You spend so much time finding great people, it’s worth it to help them grow to be the best they can be.” JUSTIN ROSENSTEIN, (Co-Founder,...
Anton Cherkasov on October 4th, 2021.
Hey, Last two weeks, we updated a bunch of things, and it’s time to show you what you can do at Focus. The new OKR Tree We rebuilt the OKR tree. The tree had only 3 levels of objectives before – the company’s OKRs, teams, and individuals. However, customers asked us to add more levels because they have more complex...
Anton Cherkasov on September 16th, 2021.
We updated the Focus bot for Slack today. Actually, it’s a brand new bot. It’s more reliable than the previous one. You can use the new Slack bot for 3 things now: Run check-ins or other campaigns (daily check-ins, weekly updates, weekly plans, or your custom campaigns) Get OKR notifications and updates in Slack Run Icebreakers in...
Anton Cherkasov on August 30th, 2021.
Hey, New week – new feature. We added custom check-ins. It’s possible to create different campaigns at Focus now. You can run as many check-ins as you want. For example, if you want to set more campaigns than basic daily check-ins, weekly updates, and weekly plans, then create a new campaign with your own...
Anton Cherkasov on August 21st, 2021.
Hey👋 We added Weekly Plans at Focus. It helps your team to plan the week. We got few requests from users that it’s not enough to run Weekly Updates to sync a team. It’s better to plan the week on Mondays and then run weekly updates on Fridays. That’s why we built the new feature. Weekly plans have the same principle as weekly...
Anton Cherkasov on August 11th, 2021.
Hey everyone, A new feature at Focus. Icebreakers. Icebreaker questions are designed as simple team-building activities to help teammates into a little team bonding. It allows people in your team to connect on a personal level. Focus generates simple and fun icebreaker questions each week. So, how does it work? 1. You turn on Icebreakers...
Anton Cherkasov on August 11th, 2021.
Hey👋 Awesome news. We launched Focus on Product Hunt last week and became the #2 product of the day. Who doesn’t know about this platform, Product Hunt is the biggest curation of the best new products. Several dozens of the new startups compete on the platform to become top-5 products.  So, it’s a really great result for us, and...
Anton Cherkasov on July 23rd, 2021.
Hey everyone, Quick update. We added more details about OKRs. Now you can get all information about the objective or key result. To do that, you need to click on a specific objective or key result. Also, you can update it, specify the current status, comment, and even make notes. By the way, notes are a great thing to see how your...
Anton Cherkasov on June 25th, 2021.
Quick weekly update. We added notifications at Focus. Now you can manage your email preferences and choose emails you want to receive from Focus. There are 19 triggers to manage notifications at Focus. Events for notifications Check-ins When someone commented your check-in When the author of check-in answered your comment When someone...
Anton Cherkasov on June 16th, 2021.
We have some news for you. Dashboard news… It’s time to be more effective. We added OKRs dashboards based on your requests. It’s possible to see how many OKRs your team achieved, average progress, and much more. Also, you can see teams’ and users’ performance based on their progress. And of course, we can’t avoid charts. You can see...
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