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Here’s a template for an annual company calendar to schedule recurring activities like business reviews, planning, and perf. You should be able to copy it if you’re logged into Google. This post is a good companion to Time is emphasis: planning your calendar as a leader.
There are a handful of recurring, company-wide activities that influence how everyone spends their time, including board meetings, business reviews, goals, budgeting, headcount planning, and performance reviews.
If you’re a 10-person startup, you probably don’t have these scheduled out for the year and that amount of structure sounds insane. But there’s a point when it becomes much more efficient if you sequence these big projects thoughtfully.
When is that? I’d suggest sometime when you get past 50 employees and millions of dollars in revenue. Definitely once you have a formal Board of Directors. And absolutely once you have 150+ employees.
