Blog about Remote Work and OKRs
Dave Schneider on June 29th, 2022.
Setting OKRs may seem like a simple task: you create an objective, set measurable key results, and start working towards your goals immediately. However, writing good OKRs is, in fact, quite challenging. Many teams struggle to write them, and as a result, their businesses don’t see real progress. To help you out, we’ve...
Anton Cherkasov on December 10th, 2021.
This week, we launched a couple of updates at Focus. The biggest one is the Feedback feature. Feedback at Focus You asked – we delivered. You can send feedback to your teammates and managers. The feedback feature is designed to spark creativity, put out potential fires, and help teammates show up as their best selves. You can...
Anton Cherkasov on December 10th, 2021.
We created a new way for weekly updates and plans. We called it OKR-based weekly updates. The challenge we see with current updates is the lack of connection between weekly action items and OKRs. Yeah, we have the questions about the main OKR next week. However, it doesn’t really show what you did for specific OKR last week. So,...
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...
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...
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 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...
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