Question 1

What can I customize for the weekly team meeting agenda?

Accepted Answer

If you create a free Friday account, you can configure and customize a workflow to automate as much of the process as possible. We will handle notifications, reminders, prompts, and we will even automatically create reports and surface trends over time. Every part of the Friday meeting routine is 100% 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) You can read more here.

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 this help me spend less time in meetings?

Accepted Answer

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. Ever felt like a meeting should have been an email? We understand.

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!  Friday is constantly adding integrations. Here's the current list: Calendar apps: Google Calendar Outlook Task management apps: Todoist Microsoft To Do Clickup (tasks) Asana (tasks) Trello Feel free to drop us a note if you'd like us to add another app!

Question 5

How does this integrate with the Friday planner?

Accepted Answer

The 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 is a good agenda for a team meeting?

Accepted Answer

We recommend asking the following questions before a team meeting: What would you like to discuss in this meeting? Current Status (on track, in progress, blockers) Anything else you'd like to share? Collect agenda items, share a high-level sense of progress, and relay other updates that might be useful to the rest of the group. If you use Friday, you can pick from a variety of prompts (open-ended, emoji, sentiment, numeric, and more). These structured prompts make it easy for your team to respond. With that being said, Friday is completely customizable, so you can tailor it to your needs! Start for free.

Question 7

Why should I collect an agenda before team meetings?

Accepted Answer

Broadly speaking, there are two categories of activities in a meeting. Information sharing and collaborating. Information sharing is the basic transmission of information and most people think these meetings are a waste of time.  If you collect an agenda before a meeting, you can walk into the meeting with a bedrock and foundation for what will be discussed. It also gives each person the space to reflect and share instead of having a few extraverted people talking the entire time.

Question 8

What do weekly team meetings cover?

Accepted Answer

There are several different meeting formats, but this is a tried-and-true format: Icebreakers Current Progress Top Priorities Blockers Kudos Next Steps

Question 9

Why shouldn't I just use Google Docs or Microsoft Word for team meeting agendas?

Accepted Answer

You can certainly use another provider to collect agenda items, but you will need to glue together ad-hoc tools and processes and the failure rate will be high. Friday makes this process predictable by automating as much as possible! For example, people on your team will need to set a calendar reminder to fill out the document. If they don't, you will need to manually remind them. This is a poor use of your time. A computer should handle this instead. Friday streamlines this process with our completely customizable workflow builder. Friday makes meeting planning much easier.

Question 10

How much does Friday cost?

Accepted Answer

At Friday, we have a free plan with no trial restrictions that you can signup for here. This should give you a great idea of how things work. We have a premium tier that starts at $6/mo per person. The good news is that if you use Friday, you will dramatically decrease the amount of time you spend in regular update meetings, which gives your team more time for deep work.

Automatic agendas for your weekly meetings

Reduce Your Number of Meetings

Pick questions and prompts for your weekly team meeting

Set a weekly meeting cadence

Relax. Notifications are sent automatically.

Share an update for the weekly team meeting

See instant, automatic reports

Push meeting updates into Slack & Teams

Rinse, repeat, and customize

Weekly Team Meeting Agenda FAQs