My firm has quarterly meetings to review various things...typical business stuff, staff issues, compare this year and quarter to last year, comparison to date of budget, upcoming purchases, and so on. Today we had our first quarter meeting. Its good from the standpoint that all 4 of us attorneys are in the same place at the same time, which doesn't happen very often. So there is usually some good discussion and jokes among all the business. But ultimately its a fairly typical long meeting, meaning its very tiresome.
I'm thinking about it now for no reason related to the meeting itself, or even work. Just the idea of quarterly reviews. The idea of taking a step back and getting the big picture of how things are going. In my firm's case, its taking a step back and seeing how work is going, how business is doing, how staff is developing, and on and on. But in an individual, or personal sense, what would be the big picture of having a quarterly review? In other words, what would be under review if an individual did a quarterly review? What would we take a step back from and see how were doing at? Our friendships? Our relationships with spouse? Child? Parent? Sibling? Our progress on personal goals? Would quarterly reviews be helpful or a hindrance?
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Hi, Don!
ReplyDeleteI was surfing the Saint Joe alumni site and stumbled upon your profile and blog. I like what you say about reviewing yourself and your relationships on a quarterly basis. I'm a planner by nature, and implementing something like this would allow me to keep the bigger-picture goals in mind as I go fumble through the day-to-day.