The Roche Report

It's that time of year - the time for reflection on what went well last year, what didn't, and what you want to drive towards this year. Personally, this often comes in the form of New Year resolutions, resolutions to {finally} exercise, or totally change our diet, or dedicate more personal time to meditation or prayer or to family. Professionally, this is in the form of measurable targets, time-bound metrics, and always in the form of growth. I spent some time talking about building professional goals with my team today and one of the comments on the call was that it would be helpful if I shared my goals with the team so that they could work on goals that could ultimately roll up to mine - at least at an organization level. So, I thought I would write a blog about both the structure that I try to use for writing goals - as well as what some of my own goals are personally this year. First, the structure - IBM has a goals system called Checkpoint where we are asked to measur

In the din of excitement in starting the year, one of my most personally exciting things is that my husband and I are expecting our second child in June. It’s a boy (!) which introduces a different lens on thinking that I’ve got this whole parenting thing figured out. We are so super excited for this- and can’t wait for the new love and joy that will come in to our lives in June. I can’t wait to see Charlie as a big sister; my in-laws gave Charlie a doll for Christmas that she kisses every morning and brings to us so we can kiss it too- so we are off to a great start! My second pregnancy has been a different experience than my first in many ways. In retrospect, my first almost feels as though I was tackling a research project to figure out the unknown - wanting to have as much data as I could about what it would be like. Also, in retrospect, I spent my entire first pregnancy filled with a sense of tremendous anxiety about how being a parent would change me and how (or whether?) it