🏡 Get Your Q2 House in Order
It’s that time of the fiscal year: quarter-switching! (We're assuming your Q1 started in January, but double check with your mentor, manager, the shareholder’s press release, or your friends in the finance department if your company isn’t public. Fiscal years are sometimes the worst best-kept secret.)
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Q1 Reflections
The outlook was nothing but hopeful with a fresh budget, new hires, and stretch projects. People are capital “D” Doing Things with their clean slates like executing, driving, and getting shit done!
To recap, here are the things you did, and documented, and told everyone about:
A win at 30 days
A win at 60 days
A win at 90 days
3 1:1s (monthly) to shine a light on said wins
13 statuses (weekly)
Put out feelers for stretch projects
👭 Share this article with a few of your corporate pals, then invite them to some networking events in Q2.
Q2 Playbook
Welcome to the exploratory period. It’s mostly just a sappy rom com montage with the corporate version of ice skating, dessert sharing, and falling asleep on their shoulder. It’s all cute as hell, with minimal drama, and adhering to the status quo in the healthiest way possible.
Here's your honey-do list to ensure the baton isn’t dropped during the year’s first quarter handoff:
Meet with champions, mentors, and cross-functionals
Give vendors attention
Attend at least three networking events
Cross-training
Start a new batch of exploratory job applications
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