The Three Weekly Meetings That Will Help You Lead Your Team Like a Rock Star

Imagined by Rebecca

Canva Team

Like many leaders, the extended period of working remotely from home caught me by surprise. I worked hard over the previous decade to refine my meeting facilitation skills. I even created a course on effectively leading problem-solving meetings for a diverse team. Going virtual was a whole different ball game.

Luckily, I had jumped on the early adoption team for the virtual teleconferencing tool my company had recently decided to adopt. So I had slowly acclimated myself to navigating a virtual meeting. What I didn’t think about and what eventually became a problem was how to keep my team connected both to me as their leader and to each other. Like everything I do, I decided to experiment with some things and learn what best worked for my team and me. That is what I will share in this post.

The first thing I did was revisit some of my reference material on how to be a good meeting host and facilitator. Some best practices translate directly over to virtual meetings. I asked my team for ideas and started piecing together what would become the three standard meetings for each week. Let’s look at each of the ones I implemented.

Open Office Hour

One of the first ideas that came from my team had to do with having more time to talk to…