The first step, which you all are very familiar with, is the checking round. Radney: Even when a year in it becomes so rote that you don't feel like you need it any more, just keep doing it. The output of checking rounds in terms of the social fabric of your team and psychological safety will never be quantified. Just trust me that it's there, and don't stop doing them. You may not enjoy it on wednesday, but you need to do it.
[Rebroadcast note: This episode originally aired in July 2021.]
If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a thousand times: Meetings are the worst. Instead of being a meaningful work tool to help teams strategize efficiently, meetings more often block things—anything—from actually getting done. At The Ready, we’ve got a different method: action meetings.
In this episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans are joined by longtime member Sam Spurlin, who dispenses a step-by-step guide to implementing and scaling effective action meetings, breaks down the best ways to “get people what they need,” and reveals how to keep the action-meeting train chugging along into the future.
You can find Sam here: https://www.samspurlin.com/