Meeting agenda templates, advice on how to run great meetings, how to pick the right meeting cadence, and more
I ran a company for four years before I thought about our meeting cadence. That was a failure by me as the operator of the business. If you don’t put work into your systems, you’ll end up with whatever comes out the other side (and you may not like it). When we decided to switch to a four-day work week, we reduced our work hours…
You’re so close to finishing your company retreat planning. You’ve got the location picked out, the activities, and a color-coded schedule that could win an art award. But you’ve downloaded dozens of retreat agendas and templates online, and they all seem to be missing one important element: the meetings for your retreat. Even when the templates do remember to talk about retreat meetings, they say…
I did nearly six years of ice breakers for virtual meetings with my team. Here’s the backstory (and the complete list of the virtual icebreakers we did). I worked at a fully remote marketing agency for eight years. We had a small group of people scattered all over the country, but we made it a point to all meet on Zoom once per week. At…