The Traveling Introvert

Hello and welcome to the Travelling Introvert. Going to talk about quarterly planning. And the reason I'm doing this is because it's come up a lot both on social media plus with clients that I've spoken to. And one thing that I'm hearing resounding against and again is that why is quarterly planning the norm? A lot of people in different organisations find that they do quarterly planning. The quarter starts and then halfway through the quarter they have to start planning the next quarter. And so their mind is never really on what they're supposed to be accomplishing this quarter because they're desperately sort of thinking about what the next goal is rather than concentrating on achieving the first goal that they had set. And that's really interesting along with the fact that. Okay. Financials tend to be quarterly and business tend to be quarterly. But does it have to be a set quarter when people are thinking about. For example. Right now. If you listen to this episode in time. It is Q Four and it's con