Running Effective Staff Meetings
Groundwork
- Humans need to know each other, otherwise they will show their worst selves
- Stripe does off-site, give people shared vocabulary to describe themselves
- Task <> People, Extroverted <> Introverted
- Declare purpose and norms of meetings
- Actively decide what kind of decisions you are making, who is the decision maker
- Reset the groundwork every 6 months (new people join, people get bored)
- Operators and creators need to balance
- Operational mode and creator mode
- Creator mode doesn't have agenda, good energy for founders
- 1 norm is to have people enforce the norms
- If the meeting is not working, the team is not working
Running the meeting
- Someone has to do it, or it will become anarchy
- Purpose, agenda, limit, decisions (yes/no, which type - consensus, consultative, alignment, or just update)
- Check-in and check-out
- Check-in: personal and Stripe top-of-mind
- Check-out: 1 word about how you feel about this meeting