Hi there,
Do you like to save time? ⏰
Do you like to save money? 💰
One timed Slack is all it takes. (Seriously.)
Source: Tenor.com
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⚡ Supercharge of the Week
Remote Octopus recommends a quick, timed team Slack message on the morning of important project meetings to re-up your objective and action items.
As you’re zooming from, well, one Zoom to another… it can be challenging to keep every meeting objective top of mind.
Take a minute and think about your last project team call.
Did everyone know why you were meeting? Or did everyone arrive with a different goal? Did everyone arrive prepared to dive in or did you spend the first 15 minutes getting your ducks in a row? 🦆🦆🦆
Consider this back of envelope math: A video call takes 1 hour. 8 people attend. The first 15 minutes are spent getting ducks in a row. If each of those 8 people have an average salary of $150k annually, and they work full-time averaging 2,080 hours per year – then an hour of their time is roughly $72 each. That 15 minutes is costing your company about $150.
Synthesizing your meeting objectives and action items into a quick Slack message models proactive communication and can save your company a lot of money.
EXAMPLE IN ACTION
Hi team! Looking forward to our call later today.
🎯 Meeting Objective
Finalize the team project plan to submit by end of day to Mei (our project approver).
✅ Action Items to Complete Before the Call
- Ingrid: Identify our go-to person in Customer Success for this project.
- Fatima: Confirm MOCHA names for the Eng team.
- Amir: Confirm Marketing capacity and key deliverables to ensure project timeline is in alignment.
- Everyone: Drop in your OOO to the Slack thread above.
📆 Here’s a link to our agenda. See everyone at 2 pm ET!
Set it and forget it. Congratulations – you just saved your company a couple hundred dollars. 💰
Plus now your call will be an effective use of team time and you can spend the first few minutes anchored in a productive conversation kickoff… all because of one timed Slack message.
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