Meetings

Meetings seem to be everyone’s favorite topic to hate on these days. Oddly enough, tools like Zoom that were made to make communication easier have possibly led to more meetings than when we were in the office.

I often hate meetings as well. I’d like to just put my head down, crank out some work and head home, but like it or not, they’re necessary to ensure that the ship is headed in the right direction.

I built the Equity Strategy team At Secfi to be ultimately flexible given that we are often on calls with clients and stakeholders nearly the whole work day. I didn’t want to layer on many meetings on top of an already busy day of meetings for the team. On the other hand, I wanted to build a collaborative environment in which we worked together on shared common goals and objectives.

Within the team, we only have 3 standing meetings.

• Monday Standup - 30 minute standup with our Operations team where we go over deal flow, deadlines for the week and pressing items that we need to strategize on.

• Thursday Standup - 30 minute standup where everyone on the team has a chance to bring up important items for discussion or feedback. We discuss new deals, strategy and opportunities.

• Biweekly After-Action - Hour long meeting where we go over team wins and achievements, and then discuss areas we could improve on as a team. We discuss our shortcomings and how we can address going forward.

Most of the rest of our communication is done via Slack and email. This has largely worked for our growing team of now 10+ individuals but I also suspect that we’ll have to change things up more as we continue to grow.