Accelerate Your Business for the Last Quarter of the Year

Teams are closing?their projects, preparing?their budgets, and defining their?OKRs, while?organizations and their leaders are looking for?better ways to scale and manage their teams - so, as part of our commitment to support you, we designed this blog post based on the tools and information you will need to close this year and set yourself up for next year's success.

Team health check.

To conclude this year, let's take a look at how people feel within the organization. It will provide everyone with a better understanding of how everyone is feeling and what things you can do to improve your team's health.

In our tool library, this tool is called "team health check survey".

One-on-one meetings.

Second, let's give your managers and leaders a great conversation deck for their 1:1s.

With this digital card deck, managers can ask the right questions to their team and ensure they connect on a deeper level without spending time a lot of time?preparing for their one-on-one meetings.

OKRs

Let's now help you define your company's OKRs and help each department do the same. You can find a helpful template inside our library.

Fewer meetings and async management.

Working async? How are things going? Organizations are using tools like Loom and Clapp to share updates with their teams, but it's difficult to manage the team and hold people accountable.

Nova has mastered how teams collaborate and perform their best work even when they work async. Leaders are also able to manage their teams async (track progress, share best practices, and keep everyone on the same page). In order to ensure team members are engaged and accountable, our platform is built based on organizational and group psychology. Because of this, Nova tracks when people participate and share their knowledge, and all our sessions include due dates and send reminders to all participants. To ensure async work is effective, we do the following.

It's not enough to send a video and hope people watch it. We send a video, track who has watched it, publish it publicly, and invite people to share ideas, discuss alternatives, etc. The only difference is that people can pick what time of the day to participate, while it feels like as collaborative and engaging as a traditional meeting.

One of the greatest benefits is that team members are engaged, in fact, more people often participate than at ordinary meetings. Teams have also mentioned that with this space, they have more time to think things through before providing feedback or sharing their perspective. In addition, they have mentioned how helpful it is to have clear deadlines and see everyone's input for reference in the future.?

Let's talk about meetings.

You probably attend multiple meetings a day, whether you manage a team or work on a project. The following steps will help you collaborate and lead your meetings asynchronously - so you can reduce the number of meetings you have a day.

In here we'll show you how async collaboration can be as effective (in fact more) as real-time collaboration.

Instead of adding another meeting to your calendar, create a video and communicate updates with your team. If you want your team members to watch the video (and track participation) or if you need their input, you can add the video to a Nova session and lead it async. In order to keep people accountable, you can share your updates and ask them to mark the video as completed once they have watched it.

People can share their ideas with you. (Select the sticky notes resource)

You can also ask them to vote for an idea.

To provide a timeline, and keep everyone accountable - you can even add a due date.

You and your team can track progress and participation this way.

Incorporating new ways to work, communicate, and manage your team async can positively affect your culture and company growth.

Stay tuned for more tips at novatools.org