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And so, uh, the idea is that as part of the goal setting, the team needs to find three things, the narratives, the commitments, and then the tasks. So the narrative is similar to the OKR, um, but teams are specifically recommended to actually make a narrative longer. [00:55:00] So use, you know, a few sentences to describe what is the strategic narrative that's underpinning, the thing that the team is wanting to accomplish.

And so the goal there is to create a really clear linkage between the goal that's being set, um, and the strategy that that goal is a part of, uh, the second thing is a commitment. So the word commitment is used very deliberately. So commitment is, um, you know, generally for a narrative there's three to five objectively measurable commitments.

Um, the commitments are meant to be done. A hundred percent target accuracy. So they're meant to be deterministic. Um, so that your team knows what they're committing to at the beginning of a quarter and is doing the things that they need to in order to achieve those commitments. Also important for commitments is commitments can be, um, you know, KPIs, but they can also be things that are more deliverable oriented.

And so as part of, um, NCTs we define three different [00:56:00] types of commitments. You can have a thinking commitment, which is really about taking time within a quarter to understand and scope out a problem. You can have a building commitment, which is taking time within a quarter to build an initial version, a prototype, or an MVP for a product.

And then you can have a launch it commitment, which is about launching, um, that, uh, that product and learning from experiments. Even if you won't necessarily. The results back. And so, you know, having the idea.

of a quantitative commitment or some of these more qualitative commitments gives teams a broader vocabulary of ways to set goals that are not so myopically focused on less let's move a metric.

And then the final piece is tasks. So TA tasks layout, what work might need to be done in order for the team to achieve its commitments and make progress on the narrative.

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