Elezea: resources for product leaders - Everyone's talking about meetings again
Housekeeping note: I am transitioning this newsletter to be more of a “best of” summary of what I posted on the Elezea blog during the previous week. It’s going to be the same content you know (although curated down a bit), so no need to do anything. But in case some of you want to switch to following the blog instead, there are multiple ways to subscribe, including an email option. It seems like the topic of meetings is on everyone’s minds again as we start the year. Will Larson has some good perspective from the engineering org viewpoint:
He goes on to recommend six core meetings for every organization to start with. The “weekly team meeting” is one I’ve become a fan of as well. Getting the entire team on a call every week has the potential for being a giant time-waster, so getting the purpose right and facilitating it tightly is essential here. For us, the purpose is:
There’s one more thing about this that I highly recommend: every meeting is facilitated by a different team member. We have a schedule that we cycle through with a clear guide on what it means to facilitate—and of course, an option to opt out. This keeps the meetings interesting and everyone invested. Speaking of meetings… In You can’t just cancel 76,500 hours of meetings Becky Kane makes some good points about the context of meetings within an async culture:
She gives some examples of other pieces that are harder but even more important in having a lasting impact on engagement and productivity:
You can read the post for the other examples, they’re all very good! As with most of these kinds of topics it’s really valuable to think about them not in isolation, but as a system. It’s not about whether meetings are good or bad, it’s about how meetings fit into the culture and system of planning and delivery that the organization operates in. → Also on the blog: When meetings are outlawed, only outlaws will hold meetings. I enjoyed this post by Yuhki Yamashita (CPO at Figma) about how design is always “Work in Progress,” and how to deal with that:
He gives some really good recommendations for how to work in this type of world where nothing is ever quite “done”. The post also introduced me to the concept of flashtags, which I quite like. It comes from Hubspot (See FlashTags: A Simple Hack For Conveying Context Without Confusion), and it’s a way for leaders to indicate how strongly they feel about the feedback they’re giving:
And finally, speaking of Yuhki… I am not really a podcast person, but I really enjoyed his recent interview on Lenny's Newsletter: An inside look at how Figma builds product. More from the blog this week:
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