SoapBox — A simple and beautiful app for 1:1s and team meetings 👏

Thanks for posting this @robjama! We made GoodTalk to help us have better 1 on 1 meetings. But, as we started getting more and more value out of it we figured this is something we should share. So we couldn't be more excited to be finally launching GoodTalk with all of you today. We believe the single most important thing a manager can do is help increase the motivation of employees to do great work. 1 on 1s are ground zero for making this happen. I wrote more about how we got it all started here: https://medium.com/@i_am_brennan... We're hungry for all of your thoughts and feedback!

@robjama FYI: That's one of the best intros I've read in awhile. Short & sweet, and I'm interested because of it.

@i_am_brennan I really love this concept. I can't tell you how many meetings I've sat through that just don't go anywhere. Lack of goals and objectives really squash the productivity. Looking forward to testing this out more. // @robjama Oh, I also submitted it to BotList. Feel free to email me edits or additional media. seth@botlist.co https://botlist.co/bots/2282-goo...

@sethlouey Awesome Seth! Thanks so much. I think we'll be taking slightly different approach to goals in the future - making them helpful and engaging instead of boring fields to update ;)

@marccrouch 🙏 awesome! Let me know how it goes

@i_am_brennan I have a 1-to-1 on Friday this week so have used it for that. The immediate thing I noticed is that the suggestions repeat themselves quite a lot. Would be awesome if "try another" discarded the suggestion so it doesn't come round again. Also, it wasn't clear that the Google Calendar sync required a recurring event, I was expecting to connect the questions to an existing one-off event in the calendar (we don't use recurring events because people's availabilities vary depending on deadlines, vacations and so on). Apart from that, some really helpful questions.

@marccrouch thanks Marc! Calendar integration is very "MVP"... We've made a few assumptions in there based on how we do things... But looking at fixing it up now that it's out. Appreciate this feedback and we'll do our best to account for you in the future

@jonathan_bega Woot woot!! Let us know if you need help setting up - although the bot is pretty friendly so he can do that for you :)

@jonathan_bega awesome! Pass on that feedback as you use it

@ryannlebel thanks Ryan! 🙏 Feel free to share any feedback

Awesome to hear @marcusdaniels. It would be awesome to play with Highline Beta and your customers!

@darynakulya Awesome question! I wish it was as simple as just a few words, but I'll do my best. Hopefully the team will add anything important that I've missed. 1. Find great people that you want to work beside all day. Don't let anyone in - especially in the early days - unless it's a perfect fit. 2. Once you have a few people, then it's time to actually define the culture. It's easy to do this step too late. It's also easy to do a bad job of it. Our cofounder @warrentanner wrote a great post on how we actually did that: https://medium.com/be-like-a-sta... you can also download our handbook there. 3. Now that you have values, run your company by them. We make hiring/firing decisions on it. I use our values as a scorecard for tough decisions sometimes. No one is above them, not even you. Sometimes that's hard. 4. Finally, in software at least, your whole business leaves the office every day. If it doesn't show up on Monday then you've lost it all. Listen to their feedback, ideas, and problems. They're smart people. Listen to them. Be invested in your team and they'll stay invested in you. Sometimes that'll feel like another job. @warrentanner and @bryan_rusche created an amazing long term goal setting document that we use with each employee to help them grow at work (and in life). https://modernmanager.io/how-to-...

@darynakulya Brennen said much of it! Something specific is that its about the people. SoapBoxers are good humans - they help each other out, are open with their thoughts and are a super ton of fun. It makes coming to work great and leaves me happier at the end of the day than when I arrive!

Thanks @seanpetersdotca! Right now, GoodTalk is Slack Only. But... in a couple of months we may have a solution for you 😉!

@mhashim thanks Mahmoud! Effective Communication gets tougher the bigger your teams get. Our approach is to tackle the centre of all teams, the manager/employee relationship. If we can create alignment and clear understanding for this level, there should be a ripple effect in creating alignment and clear understanding at the team, department and company level! Thanks for the support! 👍

@alyshadsouza Thanks for the kind words Alysha!

@johnkyeremeh Thanks John. We had some great inspiration from Obie!

@zainabiddin thanks Zain!

@craig_morantz Me too 😞 Hope the bot can help!

@jonathan_truong Thanks for the kind words! I'd love to hear your feedback after using the app!

@iandouglas736 thanks Ian! @i_am_brennan and I have already started to incorporate your early feedback!

Thanks @nehal_kazim! Please let us know how that meeting goes. We're really looking to dial in the product based on your feedback.

@jgut Thanks Josh - we really appreciate your support!

Thanks @pphilp! We can't wait to hear more of your ideas about where you'd like to see it go from here.

@sqr_m yeah separate sets of notes leads to people not being on the same page. It's 2017. We can do this