Question 1

What can I customize for the leadership 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! See more information on setting up Friday.

Question 2

How does Friday integrate with Slack/Teams?

Accepted Answer

When it's time to share an update, we'll 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

How does Friday help me spend less time in meetings?

Accepted Answer

Too many meetings? Most meetings (especially routine ones) begin with a status update before diving into collaboration. If you get your updates out of the way before you meet, you can instantly jump into more meaningful conversation. With Friday, you may be able to cut your meetings in half.

Question 4

How does this 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.

Question 5

How does this integrate with the Friday planner?

Accepted Answer

The Friday planner is your personal space for roadmapping your day. With that being said, when it's time to share an update, we'll show your work and make it easy to copy over items with one click.

Question 6

What items should I include in my leadership meeting agenda?

Accepted Answer

Most leadership and executive meetings follow a pattern like this:  Personal updates and icebreakers Reporting & Metrics Customer Successes Quarterly and Annual Goal Progress Issues With Friday, you can knock a few of these out of the way before your meeting even begins. You could save 20 to 30 minutes by using Friday beforehand and only meeting in-person or synchronously to discuss the big items.  Information sharing can be a huge time suck. You can use Friday to automate this. By setting up a routine in Friday, you can ask everyone to share their reports--either with a written summary, PDF file, or screenshots. Add context and then each team lead or department head can come prepared with questions, rather than absorbing the information in real-time. Find out more about streamlining your meetings.

Question 7

How do you structure a leadership meeting?

Accepted Answer

Identify the meeting's purpose Focus on ideation and relationship-building.  Save information sharing and updates for Friday Make sure the meeting is relevant to all participants Develop an agenda Define meeting roles Select the most functional meeting room or format Send an invite and ask for agenda additions in advance Establish how decisions will be made More tips on how to have an effective meeting.

Question 8

Are asynchronous meetings effective?

Accepted Answer

1. Set a deadline to review the agenda and add comments For the asynchronous meeting to happen on time, ask everyone to contribute their items by a certain time. This can be done in Friday with our automated weekly agenda template.  Consider asking these questions before a leadership meeting: What would you like to discuss in this meeting? Current Status (on track, in progress, blockers) Anything else you'd like to share? 2. Keep track of decisions, conversations, and ideas with work routines and meeting notes If you do a completely text-based asynchronous meeting, then this is generally taken care of. Friday offers unlimited response history on some of its plans, making it simple to go back and review your responses.  You can also include meeting notes (either in your wiki, knowledge management system, meeting notes app, or even Google Docs) as a collaborative document that you ask people to respond to.  3. Make a response mandatory  Make a meeting response mandatory even if it if the respondent has nothing to add. A simple “looks good” or “I don’t have anything else” works well, because it eliminates any uncertainty about what the respondent thinks. This is part of the company culture to help people know that their response is valued and that they need to be heard from. Then when they do have something to add, it’s not as intimidating to throw in their suggestions.   Get more tips about hosting asynchronous meetings.

Lead Without More Meetings

Reduce Your Number of Meetings

Pick questions and prompts for your leadership meeting

Set up a meeting cadence

Get notified through Friday and Chat Apps

Share an update for the leadership meeting

See instant, automatic reports

Push meeting updates into workplace chat

Rinse and repeat

Leadership Meeting Agenda FAQs