Are daily or weekly standup calls a ritual in your company?
These meetings might be wasting your time and killing the productivity of your team. Here’s why most standup meetings are unnecessary and why you should opt for a better way of communication – Asynchronous Updates.
Challenge
Standup calls were originally meant to be attended while standing up, hence the name. They were meant to share updates so the entire team can stay aligned. However, in today’s day and age, these calls have ended up becoming a disruption in an employee’s precious focus time periods. Meetings that were supposed to be for 10 minutes, now go on for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
According to Business Insider, 11 million meetings take place in America every day and about a third of them turn out to be unproductive. So, even though we are having too many meetings, we are not getting any good at them.
It’s important to remember that every meeting, whether online or face-to-face, has a cost attached to it. For America, this cost comes up to a whooping $37 billion annually.
There are numerous other challenges with the way standup calls function today. For global teams, the prompt ‘What do you plan to do today’ doesn’t work when there are some team members joining from India at 7PM IST while some joining from Germany at 3.30PM CEST.
People who can’t attend this call due to some reason might end up missing out on important updates and information. So, taking notes and MOMs during these meetings have become an additional task.
How can Noicely help?
Asynchronous updates through WrdHrd mean that a 30 minute video-call can now be a 2 minute noice-note. Team members can go through relevant voice-messages and can skim through the other ones. They will also be able to structure their thoughts before adding a question, comment or feedback.
Since there is an auto-generated transcript of these voice-messages, people who would have been unable to attend the live-meeting can also stay aligned with the team’s progress. And there is no need for someone to create minutes of every meeting.
Noicely can be especially helpful for teams that are global or working with a remote/hybrid model . Everyone can now stay on the same page, without having to be in the same time-zone.
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