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Went to a talk at Capital Factory and now I run my meetings totally different
I was at a founder talk at Capital Factory last Tuesday, just grabbing free coffee honestly. The speaker, a CEO from a local fintech, said something simple that hit me. She said 'Never ask your team 'what are you working on' in a meeting. Ask 'what problem are you solving' instead.' I tried it the next day with my dev team of 6 people. The whole vibe changed. Instead of just listing tasks, they started explaining the actual business reasons behind their code. It shifted us from just checking boxes to talking about real value. I've done it for a week now and it feels like we're finally all rowing in the same direction. Has anyone else tried changing up their meeting questions here in Austin and seen a big difference?
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cora51812d ago
How do you stop the "what did you learn" question from just getting vague answers like "I learned about the new API"?
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emma_flores12d ago
What about asking "what did you learn this week" instead? We switched to that and it cut down on pointless status updates. It pushes people to share real insights, not just activity.
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