Quarterly Planning Meetings
Quarterly Planning Meetings work just like Weekly Meetings. Use the Meetings Tool to select the team and start the meeting.
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Preparing for The Quarterly Planning Meeting
A Quarterly Planning Meeting can be a valuable day for your team to review their accomplishments and plan for the future. Although some of these topics are touched on during the meeting, in order to get the most out of your time, there are a few items that should be prepared before clicking, start meeting.
Clean up the Short-Term Issues List
- Short-term Issues are indented to be the Issues discussed throughout the quarter.
- The remaining Issues at the end of the quarter should be archived, merged, and/or moved to the Long-term Issues list if they are still relevant.
- This can ideally occur during the Raise, Discuss, Resolve (RDR) portion of the last Weekly Meeting for the quarter.
Review the Vision Tool and Create Long-Term Issues
- Understand the team's Vision in preparation for the Quarterly Session
- Create Long-term Issues out of anything that needs adjustment, is missing, or no longer makes sense.
Review the Org Chart and Create Long-Term Issues
- Create Long-term Issues about any structural changes that need to be made.
- Will seats be added?
- Will seats be changed?
Make Issues of what you learned from your Rocks
- If a Rock is incomplete, what more needs to be done?
- Even if a Rock is complete, have any new Issues come up?
- Did something change requiring further consideration?
Prepare Yourself
- Quarterly Sessions are lengthy meetings requiring everyone's full engagement.
- Prepare yourself both mentally and physically (sleep well, eat well, and be well).
Meeting Tips
- The Quarterly Planning Meeting agenda populates — this plan is customizable via the settings icon before the meeting.
- A copy of the team's Vision is archived when the meeting starts.
- Use Show Notes to record notes throughout the meeting.
- Attendees can add attachments (PDFs, Docs, whiteboard images, slide decks, etc.) during or after the meeting.
- Utilize the Mastery tool to check off tools/concepts as the team masters them to see progress quarter after quarter
- The Rocks section displays Long-Term Issues.
- Users can visit the Rocks tab to see what they have created and make their Rocks SMART.
- Upon concluding the meeting, the recap email includes Rocks created during the session and similar details to the Weekly Team Meetings recap email.