Coaching practices for Quarterly Planning Session

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• 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
• The weekly structure that fit me beautifully a few months ago now chafes against everything
• All our communication is ad-hoc
• Our weekly leadership meeting is just a round-robin of status updates where everyone reports and nobody actually decides anything

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. Review and adjust themes quarterly
   Revisit the theme-day assignment every quarter — life and work change, and the structure should follow.
   Theme Days, Made Practical
4. Establish a full meeting rhythm from daily to annual
   Align daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual meetings into a coherent cadence that replaces ad-hoc communication.
   The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus
5. Run a weekly leadership team meeting focused on strategic issues
   Hold a structured weekly meeting that separates strategic issues from operational updates.
   The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus
6. Review and update action plans at a fixed weekly cadence
   An action plan that is not reviewed weekly becomes stale — regular review keeps the plan matched to current reality.
   Action Planning
7. Batch weekly planning into a single review session
   Consolidate all task review, prioritization, and scheduling into one weekly session rather than planning continuously throughout the week.
   Task Batching: Grouping Similar Work to Cut Switching Costs
8. Run a quarterly focus review to refresh the lists
   Revisit and rebuild both lists every quarter — priorities shift, and so should the lists.
   Warren Buffett’s Two-List Strategy
9. Run a single weekly priority-setting meeting
   Replace ad-hoc priority requests with one weekly meeting where the whole team re-sorts together.
   The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams
10. Separate the planning session from the execution day
    Do your planning in a dedicated session, never on the day you intend to start.
    The Planning Fallacy — Why Your Estimates Are Always Wrong

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