All Hands Meetings
All-Hands Meeting Templates
Running an All-handsGokul uses Square's all-hands meeting as a template for explaining how to extract the most value from the time spent in an all-hands. His tips break down into: • An All-Hands should be run as soon as a company or group stops fitting into a single room. • Company All-Hands should be run weekly until the company reaches several hundred people, then move to a fortnightly cadence. • Group All-Hands should be run monthly or quarterly. • The leadership team should be deeply involved in curating the content for every All-Hands. • All-Hands should have a three-act structure: celebrate people and accomplishments, drive alignment around mission, strategy and priorities, and provide a forum to ask and answer questions. • Start with Why: Kick off the All-Hands by talking about the company's purpose and how it will make the world a better place. • Strategy: Describe the company's winning aspiration, where it plays, and how it will win. • Initiatives: Highlight the top 2-3 initiatives that are relevant to the strategy, pertinent, and important. • Q&A: Provide a forum for people to ask questions in advance and vote on them. Allow for two spontaneous questions. • Provide food and drinks at All-Hands.
How to run an efficient and effective All Hands meetingMathilde provides the template for Front's all-hands. The template is similar to Square's, with an addition of a weekly customer story.
The Ongoing Quest to Produce the Perfect Company MeetingThis article provides insight into various logistics for all-hands meetings: time, agenda, content, delivery, participation, and attendance.
How We Structure All Hands as a Fully Remote Team at BufferBuffers embraces their remote collaboration and company culture in their all-hands, by including a physical activity break about midway through.
How All-Hands Fits Into Employee Experience
Creating an effective All-Hands Meeting template is essential to ensure that the meeting is productive, engaging, and informative. A well-crafted template should include an agenda, goals, and objectives, and a clear communication plan. It should also be flexible enough to accommodate changes and feedback from employees.
How SoundCloud Keeps Communication Flowing Across 4 Offices in 4 Time ZonesSoundCloud's all-hands started out very informally, and then became more structured over time. David dives particularly deeply into their meeting feedback process.
How Warby Parker Makes Every Point In Its Employee Lifecycle ExtraordinaryThis article describes Warby Parker's employee experience, across onboarding, communication, celebrations, mission reminders, and ongoing learning.
