What is the purpose behind Contributing and Non-Contributing key results in bottom-up alignment?

Profit.co allows you to do a bottom-up alignment of Contributing & Non-Contributing objectives as a key result to the target objective.

Why this feature?

• With this feature, you can determine whether a key result outcome is helping to achieve the objective or not even when they are all aligned with it. 
• The feature clarifies the effectiveness of key results, ensuring alignment with objectives and enabling informed decision-making for optimal progress and success.

Step 1

To enable aligning objectives as a contributing key result navigate to Settings→ OKRs→ Alignments. 

On the Alignment page, switch to the Bottom Up Alignment section, and enable Always add aligning objective as a contributing key result toggle.

Step 2

After enabling the toggle, navigate to the All OKRs page where you want to align the objective as a key result.

Step 3

One of the users decides to align their objective “Grow Revenue from existing accounts” which helps to accomplish the revenue goal indirectly.

To align the Objective, navigate to the desired OKRs, then click the More icon and select the Align option.

Since the progress of the aligned objective target isn't directly linked to revenue, it was determined that the newly aligned key result would be classified as non-contributing. If they do not want to contribute the aligned KR then click on the key result and go to the Overview in the disabled the Contributing KR toggle on the key result overview page.

In addition, on the key result Alignments page, we can also uncheck the box "Mark as contributing."

The progress of the aligned objective will not be progressed in the corporate level objective after the toggle is disabled, and it will be displayed in the OKR list view page separately as Show Non-contributing key results.

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To learn more about how to align an objective as a sub-Key Result in Bottom-Up Alignment, click here.