Go async-first with your team
Use the filters below to find async-first methods that are relevant to your team. For detailed articles, check out the blog.
Escape recurring meeting hell
Recurring meetings are the bane of leaders’ and managers’ existences. Just. Get. Rid. Of. Them.
Async audio
Async audio can be an interesting way to share your message while conveying emotion. Audio is particularly easy to consume passively; such as, when working out or when driving.
Recorded presentations
Recorded presentations help you convey information asynchronously. This frees up time to meet for high stakes, engaging conversations and workshops.
6 page memo
The 6-page memo pattern forces you to prep for a meeting and to consume the background information before you dive into discussion.
Silent meetings
Silent meetings can better leverage the ideas, perspectives, and insights of your team. They’ll not just help improve your meetings, you’ll also see better ideas and solutions emerge.
Write, don’t meet
You can avoid many meetings by just writing things up. This can help you generate reusable artefacts in many cases.
Delete recurring meetings
Recurring meetings are usually meetings looking for an agenda. Not the other way around. You’ll do well to delete most of them.
Meeting free halves
It’s a good practice to keep at least half the days of your team calendar meeting free. This meeting free half should also sync with your personal calendar.
Plough back savings into team bonding
If you reduce unnecessary meetings, you can use the time savings to build relationships with your team mates.
Meeting hygiene
To ensure that the meetings you actually have are productive, here are a few simple things you can do.
Replace "quick sync" with "async"
Most “quick syncs” can be async. This honours everyone’s need for flow and deep work.
ConveRel quadrants
The ConveRel quadrants are a way for you to triage your meetings and figure out which ones can immediately or eventually be async.