Our platform now supports assigning different weights to both Key Results (KRs) and Child Objectives within Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). This enhancement allows teams to better represent variations in effort, time, or significance across all components of an Objective. By adjusting these weights, users can ensure that the overall progress of each Objective accurately reflects the true contribution and importance of its Key Results and Child Objectives.
Add weights to the Key Results or Child Objectives
Go to Performance -> Objectives.
Select the specific Objective you want to edit.
In the Objective preview mode, you will see an Edit Weights button.
This button is visible and active only for users with View and Manage all objectives across the company permissions for their roles.
4. Users can edit weights in two ways:
By clicking the plus (+) and minus (-) buttons.
By entering a numeric value directly into the field.
5. Save the new weights after editing. The objective's or parent objective's progress will be recalculated.
KR and Child Objectives weights will be displayed with a hover feature providing information about the impact.
Calculating OKR progress
To calculate the progress of OKRs, the system now considers both Key Results and child Objectives, depending on what the parent Objective includes.
The general formula looks like this:
OKR Progress = (KR₁ × KW₁) + (KR₂ × KW₂) + (CO₁ × CW₁) + (CO₂ × CW₂) / (KW₁ + KW₂ + CW₁ + CW₂)
where:
KR = Key Result
KW = Key Result weight
CO = Child Objective
CW = Child Objective weight
Here's how it works:
Multiply each Key Result and Сhild Objective progress value by its corresponding weight.
Add all these weighted values together.
Divide the total by the sum of all assigned weights.
This calculation ensures that the overall progress of an OKRs accurately reflects the weighted contribution of both its Key Results and any Сhild Objectives.
Understanding weights for Сhild Оbjectives
Weights for Child Objectives are especially useful in more complex OKR structures with multiple levels of Objectives. They allow you to control how each Child Objective contributes to the overall progress of its Parent Objective and ensure that results reflect the true impact of each level.
They work the same way as weights for Key Results - by defining the relative importance of each component. When combined, these weights create a more accurate and flexible calculation of progress across the entire Objective hierarchy.
You can use weights for child Objectives when:
A Parent Objective includes both Key Results and Child Objectives, and you want to balance their influence on overall progress.
A Parent Objective contains only child Objectives, and their combined contribution determines overall completion.
Certain Child Objectives are more strategic or require more effort, and their greater importance should be reflected in performance tracking.
Example 1: Mixed structure (Child objectives + key results)
Your Parent Objective has two Child Objectives and two Key Results:
Child Objective 1 (weight 40%)
Child Objective 2 (weight 30%)
Key Result 1 (weight 20%)
Key Result 2 (weight 10%)
All elements will contribute proportionally to the parent Objective’s progress based on their weights.
Example 2: Parent objective with Key Results and a Child Objective
Let’s say you have a parent Objective with its own Key Results and one Child Objective.
Parent Objective: Improve customer satisfaction
Key Result 1: Increase NPS from 60 to 75 (weight 40%)
Key Result 2: Reduce response time in support chats from 3 min to 1.5 min (weight 30%)
Child Objective: Enhance onboarding experience (weight 30%)
Key Result 1: Launch updated onboarding emails (weight 50%)
Key Result 2: Implement in-app guidance feature (weight 50%)
In this case:
The progress of the Child Objective is calculated based on its own Key Results.
The overall progress of the Parent Objective combines the weighted progress of its own Key Results and the progress of the Child Objective according to the weights you’ve assigned (40 % + 30 % + 30 % = 100 %).
This structure helps ensure that both direct outcomes (Key Results) and related initiatives (Child Objectives) are represented proportionally in the overall progress of the main goal.