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Noah Kagan Presents

How to Have Better Meetings

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Every business has meetings… but no one really thinks about how to optimize them! There are some specific things we do at Sumo.com for our weekly meetings, and today I’m going to share them. I’ll take you through our typical Tuesday meeting, and share minute-by-minute how we optimize the meeting to be better.

Full show notes at https://okdork.com/podcast/92

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0:00.0

What is up you sexy bastards? It's your boy Rob I can't lose aka no

0:05.7

cake in today's episode we're going to be talking about agendas yes it's the

0:09.8

sumo.com journey on agendas I know it sounds like something you wouldn't think is exciting

0:14.3

but I love this whether you're one person company ten hundred or thousands of

0:18.7

person company how the heck do people stay organized It's something that as we've grown

0:23.2

sumo group over almost 10 years, something that has been a continual evolution

0:27.1

and something that I'm always fascinated with, whether teams are local, whether

0:29.8

the remote, and so this is something that I wanted to highlight but how the heck do we

0:34.0

organize and stay on track on a weekly basis. So I want to share with you exactly how

0:38.7

we do our weekly updates. So we have a shared Google Doc and we do our team meetings Tuesdays at 10 a.m.

0:45.0

We used to do Mondays, but we found that people are just like, ah, it's Mondays, I'm just getting

0:49.0

going, let me get my stuff happening.

0:51.0

And so we're going to Tuesdays and it seems a lot more effective.

0:53.8

We have everyone call in via video conferencing or in person.

0:57.0

It's the only required meeting in the company every week.

1:00.0

And so on this Google Doc, the way we started off is that we have what's our only goal, and your

1:04.5

goal could be your yearly goal or your monthly goal.

1:07.2

And it calls it out, here is our goal so that everyone can see it all of the time.

1:11.5

Next up, we have good news so normally when we're a smaller

1:15.7

team there's only three of us it'd be like how was your weekend? How was your

1:18.7

weekend Anton? It was great thanks Noah I hung out with you all weekend but now

1:22.3

we're around 25 people it's a little bit harder to do all that because it takes a little bit too long. So I call out different groups. So this upcoming week is going to be the developers talking about what's good news in their life. It doesn't have to be just professional. Next up we go goal progress. So you want to work backwards, right? Here's our goal and then how are we doing against our goal?

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