Habit 1:
Repeated Meeting Schedule
Schedule meetings with your team::
- Status meetings, e.g., daily (max. 15 minutes to review what each person did the previous day and what they need to complete the day’s tasks)
- 1:1 meetings with each employee, preferably once a week.
- Quarterly reviews: Meet once a quarter to summarize work, celebrate successes, and plan the next quarter’s work.
Habit 2:
Appreciate
Appreciate
Appreciate individual and collective achievements and use this opportunity to exchange knowledge and experiences, and learn as a team.
- When the team reaches a major milestone in achieving its goals, organize a team-building meeting (even half an hour during work hours is enough), buy the team something special (even candy bars or chocolate medals will work).
- When summarizing the work of the week or month, conduct a retrospective (you can find more information about retrospectives, e.g., in the “start/stop/continue” section).
Habit 3:
Measure work effectiveness.
Measure work effectiveness.
Tracking changes and measuring progress helps you stay grounded in achieving your goals and sharing information about your deliveries on an ongoing basis. Implement a simple tool for your team to review and discuss progress. This could be a board in Trello, Excel, or a new field in Jira where you estimate work time and look at specific metrics.
- Develop specific metrics with your team, e.g., NPS in marketing, capacity vs. velocity in IT, customer service satisfaction in sales, etc.
- Schedule regular meetings to review progress. This can even be an extra minute for each person on the team during the daily meeting.
- change the metrics on an ongoing basis if some turn out not to provide the information you need
