Recorded presentations help you convey information asynchronously. This frees up time to meet for high stakes, engaging conversations and workshops.

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 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.

You can avoid many meetings by just writing things up. This can help you generate reusable artefacts in many cases.

Recurring meetings are usually meetings looking for an agenda. Not the other way around. You’ll do well to delete most of them.

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.

If you reduce unnecessary meetings, you can use the time savings to build relationships with your team mates.

To ensure that the meetings you actually have are productive, here are a few simple things you can do.

Most “quick syncs” can be async. This honours everyone’s need for flow and deep work.

This play has examples of how you can bring the phrase “async-first” into everyday conversation, by making it a catchphrase.