We have some important goals to hit this quarter. In order to do that, we have a system of quarterly, weekly, and daily goals. Here's how it breaks down:
- Quarterly Goals: Each DataScaler employee has a big quarterly goal that is crucial to the business' success. For the technical team, it relates to technology development. For myself and the business team, it relates to some specific customer-facing activities.
- Weekly Goals: Each person breaks their quarterly goal into specific weekly goals. These weekly goals include some demonstrable end result: a technology demo, a summary presentation of customer research, etc. On Fridays, we have "Demo Fridays" where we each present our demo/presentation related to the week's goal. There is a weekly prize for the best demo, as voted on by the group.
- Daily Goals and Reports: Every day before leaving, each person takes 5-10 minutes and sends a status report to the team. This report focuses on achieving 1-2 goals per day that lead up to the weekly goal. It is really easy "get a lot done" without actually moving the ball toward the goal line. We feel it is far more important to get 1-2 significant things done each day than 10 insignificant ones. Thus, we limit the daily goals to 2. By reporting daily on progress, we stay really focused and have the added benefit of increasing communication across the company. The daily report template looks like this:
This Week's Goal
<goal>
Previous Daily Goals (no more than 2)
1- <goal>
2- <goal>
Today's Achievement Toward Goals (no more than 2)
1- <achievement toward goal #1>
2- <achievement toward goal #2>
Other Achievements Today (as many or as few as you like)
1- <achievement>
2- <achievement>
3- <achievement>
4- <achievement>
Goals for Tomorrow (no more than 2)
1- <goal>
2- <goal>
This system of quarterly, weekly, and daily goals has worked really well for us so far. I'll let you know in a quarter how it's holding up.
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