Introduction
Rhythms lets you create and document objectives to align your team and track progress toward shared goals. Objectives define what you aim to achieve—like "Expand content partnerships"—while key results (KRs) add measurable outcomes, covered in a separate guide. Setting clear objectives ensures everyone works toward the same vision, fostering focus and collaboration across teams.
Best Practices for Crafting Objectives
Make Them Inspiring and Ambitious: Objectives should motivate your team with a bold vision, like "Transform user engagement through partnerships," rather than a generic "Improve engagement," to spark action without being unattainable.
Keep Them Focused and Concise: Aim for clarity with under 10 words, such as "Enhance customer experience," avoiding vague or overly complex phrasing that can dilute impact.
Align with Organizational Priorities: Ensure objectives support company-wide goals, connecting team efforts to the bigger picture for better coherence—don’t set isolated goals that lack strategic connection.
Avoid Overloading: Limit to 3-5 objectives to prevent spreading efforts too thin, ensuring your team can focus on what truly matters without losing momentum.
Step 1: Review Existing OKRs
Start from the Rhythms home screen, where your company’s OKRs are displayed, when identifying focus areas or gaps in current goals. This overview helps you understand existing priorities—navigate to the OKR list to assess what’s in place..
Step 2: Begin Creating a New Objective
Click "Create a New Objective" in the top right corner when you’re ready to define a new goal. You'll find two choices here:
Have a conversation with Rhythms to discover and shape your objectives. This option is great if you're unsure about your goals and need guidance.
Write your own objectives, which is ideal if you've already discussed and decided on them with your team.
Step 3: Define and Align the Objective
For this guide, let us explore the "Write Myself" option. For the "Write Myself" option, you'll notice the "Suggest" button in the top right corner. This feature activates Rhythms to:
Analyze past OKRs and organizational context
Generate contextually relevant objective suggestions
Provide multiple strategic options tailored to your team's goals
Base recommendations on your team's recent activities
You can choose to use or improve upon any of Rhythms' suggestions. Alternatively, you can type in your objective and use Rhythms' improve option, which helps you refine objectives based on OKR best practices.
Step 4: Set Time Period, Team, and Owner
Select a time period, like Q2 2025, and assign the objective to a team, such as RHY Gaming, when establishing focus and tracking timelines. This ensures the right group drives the goal—choose the time period, owner and team from the dropdowns to finalize.
Step 5: Objective Alignment
Strategic alignment is a critical aspect of effective OKRs, ensuring your team's objectives support broader organizational goals. Rhythms makes this process intuitive and powerful.
AI-Powered Suggestions: Click the "Aligned To" dropdown to reveal Rhythms' intelligent alignment recommendations
Alignment Search: Use the "Align to..." search field when you have a specific objective in mind
Flexible OKR model: Rhythms allows you to align objectives to other objectives or key results based on the OKR model that you follow in your organization.
Alignment Benefits: Proper alignment improves resource allocation, prevents duplicate efforts, creates strategic cohesion, and helps prioritize work based on organizational impact
Step 6: Get Suggested Key Results
Key Results (KRs) transform aspirational objectives into measurable, actionable outcomes. Once again, you can ask Rhythms to suggest KRs or type in your own.
Step 7: Create Objective
After you've filled in all the details, choose to either create this objective or add another objective, a child objective, a key result, or an initiative
Conclusion
Once created, the objective will appear in the list, assigned to the right person and team. This visibility ensures everyone stays informed and aligned. You’ve now learned how to create objectives in Rhythms, aligning teams and tracking progress toward shared goals effectively.