Ben Parkison

No shock since it's what we're building, but we (and our closed beta users!) user trelliswork.com to make our meeting time more structured and intentional.

User onboarding into our closed beta (trelliswork.com)! We're totally in a "cross the chasm" mode where we did a great first round of user onboarding over the last 3 months, but now we're very much in "how do we expand beyond our own extended network" to get new users. PH launch next month

This is my jam (trelliswork.com). Without getting on too much of a soapbox here: The time teams actually spend together is some of the most critical time at an organization. It's not just about productivity - it's alignment, engagement, buy-in, team culture, team autonomy... and also productivity and getting stuff done. And all of this is x100 if we're talking about hybrid/remote. In that...

This one's a great example of us basically doing an hour long product ideation and priority session... and also recording it for the podcast! https://www.trelliswork.com/podc...

Empathy and kindness. I know that sounds cliche/fluffy, and I really am the furthest from someone who would throw out banal platitudes for no reason. So call it "Emotional Intelligence." But unless you're a one-person shop you're working with people, and even the most stoic coworker still has their own messiness and humanity. A group of people is more than just a bunch of individuals ticking...

Focus on small problems. “There is only one way to eat an elephant: a bite at a time.”

The ability to easily shift into more creative mindsets. At home, if I'm working through a tricky problem and need to change things up I can much more easily go for a walk, sit in the back yard, or even kick a soccer ball around or pluck out a tune on the piano. All things that help my brain solve problems better, and all things that were much harder to do in the office. WFH has given me a huge...

Honestly here's where passion and alignment have mattered for me: When a startup and team will live or die on execution. If you have a group of people and you're headed into the trenches to try to make some idea a reality AND the path to that reality isn't obvious - then, passionate leaders who can inspire that same passion in their teams in critical. If the path is set (you have the anchor...