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Ensure team members have adequate resources.
Encourage People Ops/HR and managers to ensure team members have adequate resources to do their jobs effectively, i.e., materials, equipment, information, budget, systems, processes.
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Grant team members autonomy.
Encourage People Ops/HR to develop practices that grant team members autonomy and give them the flexibility to choose when and where they work.
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Encourage deep work
Encourage managers to ensure team members block off extended periods of time on their calendars for deep, uninterrupted work.
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Send deep work signals to co-workers
Encourage team members to signal when they are engaged in deep work (e.g., Slack status messages).
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Encourage team members to prepare before meeting, set an agenda, and define goals.
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Minimize multitasking during meetings
Encourage team members to minimize multitasking during meetings.
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Conduct meeting audits
Encourage all team members to regularly conduct meeting audits to remove unnecessary, unproductive meetings.
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Encourage People Ops/HR to schedule one week per quarter to review department processes. Remove unnecessary bureaucracy and red tape.
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Encourage company wide meeting-free times or days (e.g., no meeting Wednesdays).
