{"id":1381,"date":"2008-03-05T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startupwhisperer.com\/align-prioritie\/"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:40:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:40:02","slug":"align-prioritie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startupwhisperer.com\/2008\/03\/align-prioritie\/","title":{"rendered":"Align priorities on a weekly basis with 1:1s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I feel like startups mirror the famous quote from Erasmus<\/a> — "startups, can’t live with them, can’t live without them."  Why do I say this?  So much happens on a daily basis that keeping everyone synced up around your company’s initiatives is extremely important.  Hopefully, your objectives don’t change on a weekly basis.  If so, you have bigger problems.<\/p>\n

One management tactic that is pretty tried and true for any company is to do weekly 1:1s with your key reports.  You might be asking yourself if this is silly when you are a small company.  I don’t think so.  If you are a one-person company then you should be doing this with yourself (which is still legal in most of the U.S.).  Big companies talk about setting SMART goals<\/a>.  I think a nimbler way to goal
tracking is to list out your top 3-5 initiatives and track against your progress to your  <\/span>quarterly goals every week.  Its a great way to avoid the temptation of doing too much at once or having your company not focused on the right priorities.  This is a sample 1:1 management-by-objective sheet that I have been using for years (sample: Download sample_mbo_format_v2.pdf<\/a>
\n).  Have your employee fill it out every week before your meeting.  That gives you time to think about areas of improvement, tactic changes, etc.  More importantly, it also give you a chance to get feedback about yourself, new product ideas, etc. This exercise should be full of known expected priorities with completion dates and\/or progress on your goals.  If not, then its a great way to get you and your team aligned.  I would recommend that you review completed items as well as areas that are ‘non-priority.’  Lots of startups have crazy paces but are even crazier when there are 10+ initiatives–no company can be successful doing too much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I feel like startups mirror the famous quote from Erasmus — "startups, can’t live with them, can’t live without them."  Why do I say this?  So much happens on a daily basis that keeping everyone synced up around your company’s initiatives is extremely important.  Hopefully, your objectives don’t change on a weekly basis.  If…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/startupwhisperer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/startupwhisperer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/startupwhisperer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startupwhisperer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startupwhisperer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/startupwhisperer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1969,"href":"https:\/\/startupwhisperer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/startupwhisperer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startupwhisperer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startupwhisperer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}