Question 1

What can I customize for the all-hands meeting agenda?

Accepted Answer

Every part of the Friday meeting routine is customizable. You can customize: Questions & Prompts (open-ended, numeric, emoji, sentiment, and more) Schedule (day of week, time of day, timezone) Participants (who should share an update?) Viewers (who should be able to see the updates) Integrations (send prompts in Slack/Teams) Power-ups (send kudos or share icebreakers after completing an update) Reporting (choose a time to send a final report) Anonymity (mask names of respondents) Get complete control! You can read more here.

Question 2

How does Friday integrate with Slack/Teams?

Accepted Answer

When it's time to share an update or ask for an agenda item, Friday will send a DM to the participants. When people share an update, you can push responses into a channel or room for visibility. You can see how this works here.

Question 3

Why use Friday for all-hands meetings?

Accepted Answer

Most meetings begin with a status update before diving into collaboration. Friday allows you to get your updates out of the way in an asynchronous way before the all-hands meeting even starts. You can instantly jump into more meaningful conversation.

Question 4

How does Friday integrate with project management tools?

Accepted Answer

When it's time to share an update, we can pull in the tasks from other tools, including Asana, Trello, ClickUp, Todoist, and more. This makes it much easier to share updates...because your work is right in front of you! Learn more here.

Question 5

Why have an all hands meeting?

Accepted Answer

All-hands meetings are meant to give employees a time to express their opinion and hear updates about the organization at-large. They provide a key connection point between senior leadership and employees. Everyone at these meetings will get to hear the top-line priorities. The issue for remote teams is that as teams grow, timezone issues will be harder to bring the whole team together synchronously. To have fewer meetings, and to streamline your all-hands meetings, consider activating a Friday routine to provide a CEO update to the whole team, and also to gather information, questions, and feedback from the team in an asynchronous way.

Question 6

What should be included in an all-hands meeting?

Accepted Answer

An all-hands meeting is the time to let your whole staff know how the company is doing and any big updates and recognitions (such as a promotion or new initiative). The agenda should include company and department wins, such as big sales, new objectives, and a report on company revenue and/or growth. Friday can automate a lot of this reporting. For example, you can send out updates to the whole team before the meeting even starts, or collect agenda items or questions that team members may be less likely to share in a wide open, live setting.

Question 7

How do you structure an all hands meeting?

Accepted Answer

Include these 3 basic elements 1. A CEO or manager will want to highlight key wins and fails for the month or quarter, and report on progress. The information sharing could happen via Friday before the meeting even starts, saving time in the process.   2. This is a good opportunity for shout-outs, recognition, and kudos. Though it's always nice to verbally encourage and thank someone, with Friday you can also send kudos and not have to wait for the company-wide meeting.  3. Have time to answer employee questions. If you have a large company (think of dozens and dozens of employees) this can be an intimidating time. If you gathered questions and team feedback beforehand via a Friday routine, more employees would be likely to participate.

Give Updates Before the All-Hands Meeting

Reduce Your Time Spent in Meetings

Pick questions and weekly topics for your all-hands meeting

Set up an all-hands meeting cadence

Relax. Feedback requests are automatic.

Share an update for the all-hands meeting

See instant, automatic reports

Push all-hands meeting updates into workplace chat

Rinse and repeat

What Other Meetings Can You Automate?

Weekly CEO Update

Weekly Status Reports

One-on-One Meetings

All-Hands Meeting FAQs