Go async-first with your team
Use the filters below to find async-first methods that are relevant to your team. For detailed articles, check out the blog.
Unlink speed and productivity
Because hey, they aren’t the same thing.
Promote skin in the game
Don’t tell smart people what to do. Give them autonomy and allow them to take risks.
Encourage people management
People managers are an important cog in a team’s machine. Let’s recognise this competency.
Take the long view
Don’t disrupt yourselves. The future of work is location and time independent. Prepare for that future.
Manage by outcomes
When you measure performance, ignore presence and focus on what people are actually achieving.
Fund personal development
Help your people get better at what they love doing. Fund their personal development.
Practise radical candour
Use Kim Scott’s model of “Radical Candour” to share effective feedback.
Communication as a process; not an event
An async-first mindset helps you see communication as a series of steps, instead of a one-and-done event.
Clarify your essential intent
Your team’s purpose must be concrete and inspirational. Here’s a way to define it.
Celebrate in the open
Thank and recognise people openly. This is a small, low effort task that helps build team cohesion.
Be there for your people
If you manage people, you must keep your calendar free so it’s easier for people to seek you out, if they must sync up with you.
Async by default
To include diverse people and points of view on your team, embrace asynchronous work as a default way to collaborate.