Coaching practices for Quarterly Goal Review Process

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• We set a company goal for the quarter but it just floats at the top and never lands on anyone in particular
• I only ever take stock of my life around New Year’s, and by then the year I’m grading is already gone
• I set goals with such conviction and then never look at them again until it’s too late to do anything
• When I do this alone in my head it’s too easy to let myself off the hook and skate past the uncomfortable parts
• I’m busy and getting plenty done, but I’ve got this nagging sense I’m being efficient at things that don’t actually matter

Practices that may help

1. Set quarterly rocks — the three to five priorities each leader must advance
   Each leadership team member commits to three to five specific outcomes to deliver this quarter.
   The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus
2. Run a quarterly life audit, not just an annual one
   Review all four quadrants of your life every 90 days while the feedback loop is still tight enough to correct.
   The Eisenhower Life Audit
3. The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method)
   Tim Ferriss’s annual review is built on two questions — "What went well this year?" and "What did not go well this year?" — applied systematically across major life domains and answered with enough specificity to produce different decisions next year. It is a practitioner tool without clinical evidence, but its mechanisms (structured reflection, explicit failure review, behavioral specificity) are consistent with goal-review and learning research.
4. Run a regular review cadence
   Check in weekly and score at cycle-end so the OKRs stay alive instead of forgotten.
   OKRs for People, Not Just Companies
5. The GTD Weekly Review
   The GTD weekly review is a structured 1–2 hour practice recommended by David Allen in Getting Things Done: you clear your inboxes, review all active projects and next actions, update your lists, and regain what Allen calls "mind like water." Evidence that the full review improves outcomes is largely practitioner-reported; the underlying components — external capture systems, project-level reviews, and outcome clarification — are consistent with cognitive offloading and self-regulation research.
6. Share the review with someone who will ask honest questions
   A review held privately is easier to fudge; one shared with an honest questioner is harder to rationalize.
   The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method)
7. Look at the higher altitudes — goals, areas of focus, and purpose
   Once per week, check that your active projects still align with your goals, roles, and values.
   The GTD Weekly Review
8. Calibrate review depth to your current context
   Match the depth of the weekly review to what the week actually calls for — short when the system is current, deeper when life has been chaotic.
   The GTD Weekly Review
9. Hold a weekly accountability review
   Spend a short, fixed weekly session reviewing scores and planning the next week.
   The 12 Week Year, Made Practical
10. Generate a stop-doing list, not just a to-do list for next year
    What you stop doing next year is as important as what you start.
    The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method)

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