Cadence (Check-in) Meeting
In the idea prioritization meeting, your issue committee will discuss all the ideas from the idea collection assembly and choose 6 ideas for further development.
Goal: Identify help needed to reach short-term goals
Pre-work:
each team member should review their goal, progress toward goal, and what help they need
(optional) write help requests on a shared spreadsheet
Invite: whole issue committee
Agenda
| item | disposition | time |
|---|---|---|
| Share what help is needed | Info | 5 min |
| Plan help meetings | Decide | 5 min |
Stand-up meetings
The purpose of the cadence, stand-up, or check-in meeting is to help the team make progress to their short-term goal. The meeting both promotes accountability by asking teammates to share their progress, and promotes progress by making sure teammates are getting the help they need. The meeting is also designed to be quick so that it doesn’t waste people’s time, which also allows you to do check-ins more frequently to accelerate progress.
Before the meeting, each teammate should review their short-term (1-2 week) goals or tasks and what help they need if any. You can optionally have the team write help requests in a shared spreadsheet before the meeting.
If you are meeting face-to-face, the team should “stand-up” — having people stand up helps ensure the meeting will be brief.
The team should round-robin and ask each person the following:
Are you on track to meeting your goal? (if they answer yes, move on to the next person, if no, ask the next questions):
What help do you need?
Who can give you that help?
Write down any help requests that come up, and plan any tasks or 1-1 meetings that are needed to address the help request.
After the meeting, people can meet 1-1 as needed to address the help request.