Fadi Al-Jafari, a Senior Management Consultant at The KPI Institute (TKI), is the recipient of the Employee of the Year award for 2021, having demonstrated consistency, commitment, and competence throughout the year.

The TKI People Awards series features the employees and teams recognized by The KPI Institute for going above and beyond expectations, excelling as team players, and creating a tremendous impact on the company.

As part of the Consulting Division, Fadi facilitates workshops and training courses on strategy and performance management. He provides consultancy and develops materials for clients from different industries, helping them design and implement Performance Management Systems and other advisory services.

Fadi has a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Engineering from Al-Balqa Applied University in Jordan and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from German Jordanian University in Jordan.

As a colleague, Fadi is known for being hardworking and undaunted, having delivered numerous training programs in 2021.

“He is always very supportive and willing to learn from others,” said Iulia Tutulan of the Employee Engagement Team. “He was involved in multiple projects and besides delivering so many sessions, he was open to teach me and support me with my preparation as a facilitator. Also, he has overachieved his target and showed exemplary performance in all his fields of activity by being active in promoting our services on all platforms and ways,” she added.

Now, it is time for you to meet the man of the hour.

What does receiving the Employee of the Year award mean to you?

Fadi: It means that the organization is recognizing their employees and committed towards building a performance culture that focuses on employee engagement. For me, personally, it was a great gesture from the team after a tough year and too many deliveries.

What’s your favorite accomplishment so far at TKI?

Fadi: I achieved 200% of my sales target.

When you’re faced with a challenge at work, how do you find a solution?

OKR stands for Objectives and Key Results. It is a goal management framework that contains a maximum of five objectives and five key results for each objective. OKR, an approach successfully adopted by Google, connects vision and reality in an organization. With the OKR methodology, everyone’s work is aligned and focused on achieving the same goals. 

When done right, OKR can be beneficial for organizations, especially when there are a lot of uncertainties. According to a survey held by Mind the Product and NEO culture, companies consider increased transparency across their organization as the main benefit of using OKR. More than half of the respondents reported being able to monitor and update the probability of key result achievements. 

Andrew Constable, founder of early-stage business & product consultancy firm Visualise Solutions, said that OKRs help build a “culture of shared purpose.” He points out that under OKR, everyone is moving in the same direction and working on things that truly matter.

Alina Miertoiu, a senior management consultant at The KPI Institute, explained in her article “OKR Essentials – Simplified Performance Management” that the OKR approach asks the questions, “Where do I want to go?” “How will I know I’m getting there?” and “What will I do when I arrive?”

She believes that OKRs are suitable for agile organizations because their work requires regular updates and is open to changing goals and results. An OKR-focused system can help organizations take higher-risk objectives instead of operational ones. The methodology also leads to higher employee engagement because it encourages employees to be creative and take risks.

Alignment, not cascading, is key to OKRs, according to Alina. “When setting their own OKRs, employees should take into consideration their own responsibilities, the strategic direction, the already-established OKRs or the management’s aspirations in the organizational context,” she wrote.

“It is recommended that an employee’s OKRs are actionable by that person, so it’s harder to assign OKRs or create a set of general OKRs for a position,” she added.

If you would like to explore further how your organization can benefit from using OKRs, Alina is facilitating The KPI Institute’s Certified OKR Professional Live Online training course on 21 – 25 February 2022. 

Discover the benefits of stretched goals, understand how OKRs work in different contexts, and identify best practices for aligning OKRs across the organization. Experience developing a comprehensive project plan for an OKRs implementation and creating communication templates to gather data for OKRs measurement.

Get more details about the course and register here.