Tool: Rocks

When it comes to priorities, you may have heard the term ‘Rocks’, first popularized by Stephen Covey in his book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. He defined Rocks as your most important priorities, the things you must get done before urgent things that come up as well as daily interruptions. 

In EOS^®, we took this definition further to define Rocks as the three to seven most important priorities for your company, the ones that must be done in the next 90 days. 

To help you create the results you want for your business, we gathered these five blog posts to help you set, manage, and knock your Rocks out of the park!

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In 2018, my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer.

After the initial surgery, she not only had to work on healing physically, but also on emotional and mental healing. And that meant learning how to manage and control stress.

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In a recent EOS^® Quarterly Meeting, the leadership team was proud to report that they had completed each of the ten Rocks (key priorities) that they had committed to getting done. They had gotten close in previous quarters, always exceeding the goal of 80% completion but this was their first “100% quarter”.  In fact, I’ve conducted hundreds of sessions with leadership teams over the years and none has ever completed all their Rocks. So, I asked the Integrator and his team, “What did you do differently this quarter to complete all your Rocks?”

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Over the last few months, I’ve been hearing a common theme among my clients. They keep saying, “I have a day job and a Rock job.” At first that confused me a little bit. Then I realized that one of two things is true. One possibility is that we chose the wrong Rocks for the quarter. The second possibility is that the team member is spending most of their time on useless activities.

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