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Part II: Take action

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4. Drive effectiveness

How can we make our meetings more effective?

Let’s make sure our meetings are effective!

In the , we all scored our meetings and identified meetings that we felt were ineffective. As a reminder, our team effectiveness score is
3.8
out of 5.
While we’ve spent a lot of time finding flow, defining our Meeting OS, and minimizing ad-hoc meetings, it’s now time to focus on making the meetings we have more effective. A few useful references are and . What can we do to make these meetings more effective?

Step 1: Take Action → Meetings we all thought were ineffective.

100%
of our joint meetings had low effectiveness scores. Here’s the list - note that it is grouped by meeting so we can see how each of us scored them.
Event Title
Who
Effectiveness
Daily standup
3
Joel Davis
Polly Rose
Alan Chowansky

What can we do to improve these meetings? Add and vote on ideas here. Then, we’ll discuss as a team.
Add action idea for improving ineffective meetings
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Action Idea
Author
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Let's do this!
1
Echoing a previous suggestion - can we combine Monday standup and kickoff?
Polly Rose
1
2
What if we moved standup to Slack?
Joel Davis
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Step 2: Take Action → Meetings where we disagreed on effectiveness.

Interestingly, we disagreed on the effectiveness of
0%
of our joint meetings — i.e. some thought they were effective while others didn’t.
Event Title
Who
Effectiveness

Why do we disagree on the effectiveness or these meetings? What can we do to improve these meetings? Add and vote on ideas here. Then, we’ll discuss as a team.
Add action idea for improving meetings with varied effectiveness
Clear ideas
Action Idea
Author
Vote
Let's do this!
1
Instead of giving the complete list of tasks for the week, we could use to focus on what support is needed from the rest of the team.
Buck Dubois
3
2
Let’s add our updates before kickoff starts, so that we don’t spend meeting time doing that.
Polly Rose
2
3
We could extend the meeting so that we don’t feel rushed.
Alan Chowansky
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