These are the top priorities for the Quarter, both for the company and for each member of the team
People tend to loose focus. Working in Quarters gives you a chance to refocus every 90 days.
Even then, day-to-day work and firefighting have a tendency to crowd out work that is important, but not urgent. Most issues related to company management fall in that category.
Setting Rocks, and committing to those priorities, ensures that you are working on the right things, and makes it easier to keep each other accountable and moving in the right direction.
Rocks are the 3 to 5 priorities for the company and each team member per Quarter.
Working with Rocks is a great way to create focus, alignment and accountability.
By limiting yourself to 3 to 5 Rocks each quarter, you ensure that you are focused on the right priorities and not getting distracted.
By setting Rocks as a team, you have full control over the alignment of everyone’s priorities and their relation to the yearly goals and BHAG.
Because Rocks are limited and clearly defined, it is much easier to hold each other accountable for the Rocks you pick at the start of the quarter, and the work you’ve done at the end of the quarter.
The trick is to pick the right amount of Rocks, and scope them correctly.
If you pick too much, you won’t be focused enough.
If you pick too little, you can’t build the traction you want.
Take a quarter to get used to this method, and work towards getting 80% of all Rocks done each quarter.