Key Takeaways: Company All Hands
Hosting All Hands:
- Have other people besides the exec team host all hands. This helps with visibility across the org and keeps people interested.
Content Suggestions:
- New Hires and Anniversaries
- Important Company-Wide Announcements
- Live Recognition, Praise, or Shoutouts
- Deep dive on Specific Departments
- It’s helpful to template the department updates, so everyone knows what to expect and to keep people on track with timing.
- If reviewing Goals/OKRs, keep it high level - Don’t get too in the weeds. People who are not in that specific department might get lost in the details.
- Company Business Review
- Financials Deep Dive (with explanations as to how this impacts people)
- Industry and Competitive Rundowns
- CEO shares what is inspiring them and their aspirations for the business
- CEO State of the Union
- Customer Quotes and Stories
Possible meeting structures:
- Weekly
- Less formal content
- Have different meeting types, so people know what to expect each week, such as:
- Week 1: Leadership AMA
- Week 2: Business and OKR Updates
- Week 3: Panels or Lunch & Learns
- Week 4: Department Takeovers
- _It’s helpful to label the types of meetings that you are having on the calendar so people can get a preview of the agenda. _
- Monthly
- Quarterly
- Higher quality of programming, more structured
- Some of the less formal content that can be done at an all hands are often not included in all hands and called a different meeting at this cadence: Roadshows, Lunch and Learns, Community of Practice, Town Halls, AMAs
Meeting Followup:
- Make sure to send a note after all hands with a few quick bullets on what Exec wants people to take away from and absorb during all hands.
- Send a survey afterwards:
- Do you understand the company’s vision? (Y, N, M)
- Do you understand how the company is performing and what are are doing to improve? (Y, N, M)