So at Mondo HQ we’ve just started a rota for organising/hosting our weekly ‘all hands’ meetings (a great idea courtesy of @rdingwall!)
The idea is that each week whoever is in charge will introduce their own sections, games, themes (or whatever they like!) so that we use the meetings not only as an opportunity to hear what everyone is up to, but also brainstorm ideas, hear about users and play fun games
Some examples:
playing charades
asking people what’s making them anxious/excited
nominating those who go above and beyond for ‘smilies’ (special :mondo: stickers)
This coming Wednesday it’s my turn to host, and I wanted to get the community as involved as possible (that’s you… )
I’m thinking of introducing a community thread of week section, for instance, or a Tweet of the week. Also maybe games that centre around our users (off the top of my head, guessing game about facts like ‘which countries have yet to be Mondo’d’).
I’d love to (a) hear your ideas, and (b) if you have them, hear what you include in your company ‘all hands’ meetings. Thoughts?
PS - You’ll get a shoutout and a ‘smiley’ sticker from me if we use your ideas!
PPS - I might try a live stream of some of Wednesday’s meeting (5pm) if you’re interested…?
Along similar lines to charades, if you’ve heard of the game Heads Up you could create a special Mondo :mondo: pack, and see where that takes you?
Seems a little corny, but if you have objectives, or key facts or bits of info that a staff member needs to know, that could be a funner way to get them to remember it?
P.S. I’d love to see a live-stream of these meetings, the idea intrigues me
I think maybe talking about what you do outside of work. Any side projects people might be involved in. You’d be surprised what people are getting involved in.
And our meetings at work are very old fashioned. It’s the kind of company I work for unfortunately.
I think pulling out a key theme from the forums is an excellent idea. I would suggest that you take a theme that would benefit from wider input across the different Mondo teams. So even if (for example) it’s really a Marketing issue, you get ideas from (for example) Engineering. This clearly wouldn’t work for everything but for some ideas could be good - and fun for people who wouldn’t normally have the opportunity to input on the ideas.
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