All-Hands Meetings

Let’s face it, all-hands meetings are a lot of work and can sometimes fall flat. But they don’t have to! By including the right agenda items, you can help ensure that your meetings provide real value to your organization and don’t become another cog in the wheel of pointless meetings. When planning an agenda for your next all-hands meeting, use this ideal agenda as a guide to maximize the time spent at your meeting, make sure everyone who attends walks away with something val

We've been hosting virtual all-hands meetings for awhile now. With the pandemic waning, you're probably asking yourself, isn't it time to do in-person all-hands meetings again? Wouldn’t it be better to get everyone in the same room, brainstorming and collaborating in real time? Well, not always! With today’s technology and predominance of remote-first and distributed teams, your team can collaborate and stay aligned effectively without the high cost of in-person all-hands.

Engaging globally distributed teams presents some interesting challenges.  Have you ever gone to an all-hands meeting only to find yourself checking email on your phone or thinking about what you’re going to order for lunch?  Most of us have, at least once!  But you don't want YOUR meeting to be a snooze-fest that the team ignores.  Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to create excitement.

In today’s globalized and interconnected world, businesses can be located anywhere, which means that you don’t have to be in the same physical location as your co-workers in order to do your job well. This presents some interesting challenges, though; being remote is more difficult than having everyone work from an office together. How can you build office culture when you aren’t all at the same place? Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to make this happen...

Your company is growing - WIN!  But are you finding it increasingly difficult to keep all employees in the loop and aligned to the goals of the business? It is especially critical to align your  global sales team at least annually (or even better, quarterly) to discuss current sales figures, quarterly and annual goals, new product development and other relevant business topics. One way to ensure you maintain communication among your team members is to hold all-hands meetings.