Range Blog

10 key practices to improve team culture

Strengthen your culture and watch your team members thrive

9 tips for running better hybrid team meetings

It's fast becoming the new norm

Nadia De Ala, Founder of Real You Leadership

Managing Up in a Hybrid Environment

Jean Hsu

Brown Bag Sessions: Yes, your team should have them

57 Really Good "Get To Know Your Team" Questions

Connect with each other & create trust

Josh Spilker

How to select the perfect meeting cadence

Explore different meeting types, ideal cadences, and factors to consider.

Microsoft Teams Overview & FAQ

Your Questions Answered

How to write a superb kick-off meeting agenda

Kick off your meetings with a bang — with Range’s help

Do you still need that vendor? A step-by-step guide on vendor audits

Free meeting template to help conduct your review

How to run a board meeting: Best practices and free agenda template

Tips for more engaging board meetings

Customer feedback is better than gold — here’s how to analyze it

Analyze customer feedback to get a deeper understanding of your consumers.

5 types of scrum meetings and popular meeting templates to use

9 fun remote team building activities to try today

Ideas for helping your remote team feel more like a team

21 Google Calendar hacks to pump up productivity

Discover these Google Calendar tips and shortcuts that simplify work and life

Marketing meetings: Tips for better meetings, types of marketing meetings, and templates to try!

Follow these pointers and have better marketing meetings moving forward

Douglas Ferguson, Founder of Voltage Control

Facilitating Large Meetings

Jean Hsu

The 12 best Microsoft Teams apps (Pros, cons, and pricing)

Make Microsoft Teams work even better for your staff with these handy integrations

Plan your sprints the right way with this sprint meeting agenda

New in Range: Private Goals

Track progress on confidential work streams in one place

Here’s how to run an ad hoc meeting

Host better spontaneous meetings with these 6 easy tips

The 8 best online planners for work you can use today (Free & paid)

Align your work day with your goals

Josh Spilker

11 top task tracking software (Free & paid)

Work faster & know what to work on next

Josh Spilker

8 expert tips on managing engineers

Advice from leaders at Stripe, Calm, Adobe, & more

Joaquín Roca, Founder of Minerva

Feedback and Performance Conversations in a Remote Environment

Jean Hsu

What a positive team culture looks like (and 6 steps to build yours)

Here’s your detailed guide to building a collaborative environment

10 meeting alternatives to get your team’s focus time back

Reduce your meeting load with these new approaches

Robin Johnson

Meetings Update: Involve everyone with more collaborative meetings

Get three meetings of work done in just one.

9 powerful goal-tracking tools & software

Get your team on the right track with these fantastic goal-tracking tools

6 types of meeting goals + how to set up your meetings for success

Enhance your team’s collaboration by creating effective meeting goals

22 funny meeting memes for your team

Tired of meeting overload? Get a quick break with these memes

How to create a personal user manual for work: 6-Step Guide

A personal user manual for work is an excellent source that helps team members understand your working habits better. Find out more here.

The essential guide to team RACI charts

Take pride and accountability in your work with a team RACI chart

Daily Standup Meetings (Free agenda & template)

Everything you need to know to transform your team's standups today

10 best planning tools & software for innovative teams

Build a modern team planning tech stack

Josh Spilker

12 qualities every good manager should have

Learn how to become a more successful manager with these actionable tips

15 top asynchronous communication tools

Effective asynchronous communication is all about using the right tools

13 hand-picked Zoom backgrounds for work

Use these Zoom virtual backgrounds for your next work meeting.

Josh Spilker

How do you manage a busy team?

A guide for leading through overworked times

Best Slack Integrations: 12 essential apps to help your team

Supercharge productivity and simplify communication with these Slack-ready apps

How to nail your year-end review (for managers + team members)

Sail through your year-end review with these tips

The manager’s guide to meeting efficiency

Avoid wasting organizational resources and time with these tips

303 Best Icebreaker Questions for Work & Meetings

Good icebreaker questions you can actually use in Range.

Josh Spilker

7 Hugo.team alternatives for meeting notes & agendas

What are the best online meeting tools?

Josh Spilker

8 Fellow.app alternatives for high-performing teams

Need more than meetings? Looking for other options? This list will help.

Josh Spilker

What is the best meeting management software for your team? 9 tools

Turn meetings from chaotic and unhelpful to organized and effective

8 Tips to have better daily huddles (and stop wasting time)

Your team playbook for this 15-minute daily practice

12 best online meeting tools: Note-taking & video edition

Top-notch meeting tools make for better meetings — give these apps a try

How teams work: Range’s product and engineering team

Prioritizing async-first to create progress

Brooks Scott, Founder of Merging Path Coaching

How to Foster Diversity & Inclusion on Remote Teams

How to create a RACI responsibility assignment matrix + tips

Here’s a breakdown of everything you need to know about a RACI matrix

Skip-level meetings: How to conduct one + best questions to ask

The complete guide on having an effective skip level meeting with your boss’s boss

Async daily standups: the pros & cons

Why your team needs them

47 best check-in questions for amazing meetings

Build stronger connections & healthier meetings

11 best team management tools (Work together!)

Get more done

Tool fatigue? How Range can consolidate your tech stack

Connect your communication tools and reduce your meeting load

How To Plan Your Day

6 powerful strategies to help you plan your day. Get max productivity & better well-being

Team Meeting Balance: How many meetings is enough?

Find out if your team has too many or too few

16 best team collaboration tools in 2022 (Free & Paid)

Supercharge team effectiveness with the best tools across 3 crucial categories

Josh Spilker

9 best team productivity tools & software for better workflows

Enhance your team's productivity with these tools

Our Team is on a Summer Break (2022)

7 Virtual Meeting Tips & Best Practices for More Interaction (2022)

Tips for running virtual meetings that get everyone involved

Surfacing productivity without monitoring your team

Surveilling your team isn't the answer when it comes to remote team management

8 ground rules for more effective team meetings

Follow these is to make every meeting worthwhile

68 team reflection questions for enhanced team building

Use these reflection questions to review & plan with your team

Fred Plais, CEO of Platform.sh

How to Set Up a Globally Distributed Team for Success

The 11 best communication tools for teams of all sizes

Find the tool that works best for your team

5 reasons you have too many meetings at work (and how to solve it)

Could too many meetings at work be sucking the life out of you and your team?

9 of the best business communication tools for your company

Enhancing productivity & efficiency starts with the right tools

Goals and objectives: a mini guide for managers

The difference between setting goals and objectives, and why it matters for your team

How teams work: Postscript’s engineering and product teams

Building an async-first culture that also prioritizes team connection

14 unconscious bias examples at work (and how to spot them)

Unconscious biases are social stereotypes that people form unintentionally.

Steph Mann, Co-Founder of At Your Core

How to reinforce values on remote teams

How to build a high-performance culture at work [5 Steps]

See higher profits, less churn, and better business outcomes

Andy Detskas, Senior Product Design Manager at Strava

How to build an inclusive meeting culture

How to welcome new team members + 8 example welcome messages

Onboard new employees with the warmest of welcomes with these pointers

How teams work: The General Galactic Corporation team

A new, creative approach to remote and distributed team meetings

67 Simple Team Building Questions for Work (2022)

Favorite questions to build trust & connection with your team

Michael Boykin

Hybrid work requires communication tools to keep developers connected

Here are the challenges developers face on hybrid teams, and how the right collaboration tools can help.

Your team’s success is fueled by its rituals. What are yours?

The power of team rituals and how to create them for your distributed workplace

How to take good meeting notes

Make note-taking a no brainer with this template

Top-down vs. bottom-up: Leadership styles defined

Which leadership style is right for your business?

Asynchronous meeting 101: Get more team input in less time

Host streamlined asynchronous meetings with these tips

How to write a team status update (that will actually get read)

10 simple tips to remember when sharing your next status update

Top 5 online drawing games for remote team building

Draw and laugh together to boost team culture

Jean Hsu

Suzan Bond on navigating conflict on remote teams

Lead Time Chats: Season 4, Episode 4 Takeaways

12 marketing objectives your team should care about

How to set the right goals — and help your team crush them

Top 9 metrics for product managers

A guide to mastering data-driven product development for cross-functional teams

Why every great meeting needs a great facilitator

8 tips to help you run better, more productive and engaging team meetings

Why top-down management may not be for you

The problems that arise when decision-making starts and ends at the top

Accountability vs. responsibility: Workplace edition

How these two attributes build strong teams, plus tips to incorporate them

12 easy ways to enhance your entire team’s work performance

More work doesn’t always mean better work. Have your team try these efficiency-boosters

The essential time blocking guide + templates

Bring focus and productivity to your days with these tips

Range featured on Capterra's 2022 Remote Work Software Shortlist

Access the shortlist report, plus excerpts of our favorite reviews

How teams work: Engineering at Samsara

How to manage meetings and comms across multiple workstreams

How to communicate effectively with your team members

Jori Lallo on working effectively across different timezones

Lead Time Chats: Season 4, Episode 3 Takeaways

4 communication styles & tips for communicating with each style

Strengths and weaknesses of the four styles of communication

Hong Quan, Owner of Hire Haus

How to hire for remote teams

11 customer success goals your team should care about

Top metrics to help your customer success team focus on what matters most

The 3 most popular 1-on-1 meeting templates (Free)

These one-on-one meeting templates are designed to drive engagement with direct reports. Ask the right questions, and get ideas for discussion topics.

How to give daily feedback to employees: 12 tips to be more constructive

Time blocking: Tips and strategies to improve time management

How a goal tracking template helps teams achieve business goals

How teams work: ConvertKit’s eng team

A look at meetings and communication across a remote eng org

10 examples of engineering performance goals

Help your eng team succeed

How to run effective team meetings: 10 tips for leaders

Empower your entire team

Tips for effective engineering team meetings

How to track goals in the workplace: Tips, methods, and tools

How teams work: Ambassador Labs’ eng org

Must-have meetings and building comradery on a remote team

Najeeb Khan, Founder of TeamLand

How to foster belonging on remote teams

How teams work: Rev’s design team

Advice on handling remote collaboration, communication, and conflict

How to build a healthy team culture for developers

Team culture isn't just a nice-to-have. Here's how managers can mix technology and compassion to help team members feel supported and inspired to do their best work.

How teams work: JobGet’s product team

Nimble, collaborative product development at a remote startup

How teams work: The Beyond HQ team

Ideas for gaining better alignment at a fully remote org

Simplify communication on your software dev team with Linear + Range

Stay on top of day-to-day issues and tasks. Easily surface the most important updates for your team.

How teams work: DuckDuckGo’s engineering team

Tips for leading a distributed, remote engineering org

How Informed K12’s engineering lead uses Check-ins to enhance his team’s daily standup

After using Range at Twitter, Ethan Schlenker brought it to support his team at an education startup

How to check in with your team

The importance of building a habit of effective team check-ins

People problem or a process problem? It's probably both.

The move to hybrid and remote work has made the challenge more complicated. Here are the new ways to handle it.

How technology helps in team building exercises at work

Now more than ever, businesses need team building — but traditional approaches have backfired. Here's a new way forward.

The 3 biggest “aha moments” from our first Lead Time Live event

Fresh ideas for running remote and hybrid meetings (that don’t suck)

The 12 best meeting agenda examples & templates (Free)

Free meeting agenda templates for 1:1s, team meetings, sprint planning, and more

3 ways to strengthen team culture in 2022 and beyond

Our top culture strategy tips, plus a free ebook for you and your team

An introduction to psychological safety

Why creating a climate of openness in the workplace matters, and how to do it

Michael Boykin

Announcing Range Goals, for connecting team goals to daily work

Bring lightweight goal-tracking to your team's status updates, meetings, and Slack channels

Range's Design Refresh: The Engineering Story

Engineering process behind Range's new coat of paint

Stephanie Yeung

How teams work: Lessen’s product, eng, and design org

How to balance structure and autonomy on a fast-growing hybrid team

Remote work software: 13 tools your team needs in 2022

The software you can use to motivate your team, improve collaboration, and increase productivity.

How to run a great remote planning meeting for the year ahead

Tips and a sample agenda to help your team plan your best year yet

Too many work apps? It may be time to focus on integrations

Top challenges of SaaS overload, and how connected tools can help your team work better together

Anna Sulkina, Director of Engineering at Twitter

Recognizing the parallels between endurance sports and software engineering

What it takes to run better remote meetings — the experts weigh in

Engineering leaders answer your burning questions on remote and hybrid meetings

Preparing your team for in-office or hybrid work

How to challenge existing norms and redefine the ways you want to work together

How teams work: Asana’s Scale Area Team

What great information flow looks like on a large, cross-functional team

3 tactics to supercharge your team’s status updates

Turn them into a lasting, invaluable resource for your team with these tips

Pat Kua, Engineering Leader and Founder of Tech Lead Academy

Understanding the different archetypes of tech leadership

Saying thanks: How to practice gratitude with your team

And how we developed a practice of gratitude in the workplace

Retros just got so much better

With Reports in Range, easily analyze your team’s status updates by Tags, Flags, and time period to find the key takeaways from any project or sprint.

How To Deal With a Micromanaging Boss

Telltale signs & how to stop micromanagement before it becomes major

How to build a culture of gratitude

Gratitude is extremely powerful when done well

Jennifer Dennard

Dan Na, Senior Engineering Manager at Squarespace

How to push through friction as your team grows

How teams work: First Round Capital

Getting meetings and communication right at a fast-growing VC firm

How teams work: ThoughtSpot’s development team

Staying in-sync on a fast-growing, remote team

Knowing how your team is feeling matters

How to know how your team is feeling and what to do with those valuable team insights

How teams work: On Deck’s ODX team

Staying in-sync (and sane) on a fast-growing, remote team

Top 4 reasons to start monitoring your team's meeting load

A quick guide for managers, and how the Team Dashboard in Range can help

Jessie Duan, Chief of Staff to the CTO at Roblox

How to understand the Chief of Staff to CTO role

Manage what matters with the new Team Dashboard

Save time and see the big picture of what’s happening on your team

Running Remote Teams

A recording of our recent Lead Time Live panel, plus key takeaways

Building Resilient Teams

A recording of our recent Lead Time Live panel, plus meeting notes

Stay in sync with Range and ClickUp, without all the meetings

Together, Range and ClickUp help distributed teams save time and stay connected

How teams work: Help Scout’s EPD team

What meetings and communication look like on a distributed global product team

Kate Heddleston, Senior Engineering Manager at Samsara

How to manage burnout on your team

Build trust on your team with these 6 strategies

Trust in your colleagues is a key motivator. Here's how to build trust in a team & succeed

Standing up team check-in meetings

Align, unblock, and give everyone a voice — here’s how to get started

Jennifer Kim, Advisor and Founder of Startup Recruiting Bootcamp

How startups can hire better

No mo’ meeting FOMO

How to keep everyone in the loop without adding more names to your attendee list

5 remote onboarding tips for managers to create a smooth experience for new hires

Plus insights from Range team members who onboarded remotely in the past year

Remote team offsites are possible, and can be great

How we ran our first virtual team offsite while WFH

Lead Time Chats Season 2 Recap

Highlights from interviews with Camille Fournier, Kim Scott, Tess Rinearson, and more!

Jean Hsu

How to give better remote feedback

Improving team culture through collaborative feedback

Jennifer Dennard

Prevent Team Silos with Better Cross-Team Meetings

How Range can help you strengthen relationships across the company

Jean Hsu

Easily Facilitate Meetings with Anyone

Wow your meeting attendees with your well-run agenda

6 actionable meeting hacks to free up your calendar

Troubleshoot common meeting pain points with these quick fixes

How to reduce meeting dependency on your team

Hold fewer meetings by blending async and real-time communication

Ellen Wong, Director of Engineering at Calm

How to lead and work on hybrid teams

Sarah Milstein, VP of Engineering at ConvertKit

How to set up remote and hybrid teams for success

Here it is: The real meaning of accountability in the workplace

How to foster a greater sense of accountability on any team

5 Most Common Meeting Pet Peeves

Concrete tips on how to address them and get your meetings back on-track

Jean Hsu

Jack Danger, VP of Engineering at Pathstream

How to strategically take on technical debt

Indrajit Khare, Sr. Engineering Manager at Google

Adjusting after getting acquired by Google

Why you should create meeting action items for accountability

Tips to make action items way more actionable

Beau Lebens, Engineering Manager of Automattic

How to approach distributed team meetups

Lynne Tye, Founder of Key Values

Mapping the new engineering hiring landscape

Run better meetings with Range

A tool for more efficient, effective, and inclusive meetings

Chris Bee, CTO of Lessen

Identifying the behaviors of effective engineering leaders

Next gen standups

Make your standups more efficient and engaging. Combine Range’s async check-ins with a seamless in-meeting experience using the new Zoom Apps platform.

Meeting Facilitation Cheat Sheet

Go-to responses for when your meeting goes off the rails

Jean Hsu

Transform your next team meeting

Using async pre-reads to align, prepare, and get more out of your time together

Three common myths about daily standups (and how to avoid them)

Was that a yawn? How to reinvigorate your daily standup by combining async status updates with video

Three traits of every great meeting

A look at what highly effective meetings have in common and how you can replicate them

Rachael Stedman, Engineering Manager at Asana

What engineering managers do outside of managing teams

Tired of bad meetings? Design a better one

Kimber Lockhart, CTO of One Medical Group, on how you can intentionally design team meetings to encourage behaviors you want to see

Jennifer Dennard

The essential guide to 22 different types of leadership styles. Get to know the 22 types of leadership from the 3 most common personality profiling tools. Which of the leadership types is yours?

Which of the leadership types is yours?

Sumeet Arora on moving on from a big company

Lead Time Chats: Season 2, Episode 4 Takeaways

Hybrid teams: A guide to what they are and how to manage them

Best practices and tips for transitioning to hybrid work, managing hybrid teams, and communicating async.

Remote vs. telecommute vs. hybrid work: What it all means

Understanding the different types of remote work, so you can decide which one is best for your company.

Transitioning to remote management, successfully

Overcome these common management obstacles when going fully remote

Elizabeth Tobey

Kim Scott on building for systemic justice

Lead Time Chats: Season 2, Episode 3 Takeaways

Managing unlimited PTO in a post-pandemic world

How to manage your team vacation calendar and support your team

Jennifer Dennard

What are silos? And how do you break them down?

3 strategies to break down silos and build a more effective team

Distributed agile: How to make it successful with your team

Tess Rinearson on early career engineering managers

Lead Time Chats: Season 2, Episode 2 Takeaways

Camille Fournier on making boring plans

Lead Time Chats: Season 2, Episode 1 Takeaways

Duretti Hirpa on mentoring junior and mid-level engineers

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 2 Takeaways

Lead Time Chats Season 1 Recap

Highlights from interviews with Will Larson, Duretti Hirpa, Cate Huston, and more!

Jean Hsu

Companies that let you work from home

A list of top tech companies embracing remote and hybrid work

Check-in with your team on what matters most

New in Range: Automated nudges to get key project updates from your team and reinforce culture and values

How to balance remote team collaboration

You don’t have to choose just one, but employing both async and sync operations can be a tricky balancing act

Bhavika Shah

Rethinking your team’s standup? Here are 3 new approaches to try out

How teams at Adobe, Wellthy, and Informed K12 run their daily stand-up meetings using Check-ins

Pros and cons of different hybrid work models

What managers should be considering in 2021 and beyond

Jean Hsu

How to increase team accountability — even when you’re remote

Building a culture of accountability into your team’s DNA

The top 4 remote work challenges (and how to help your team overcome them)

The manager’s playbook for supporting remote work and hybrid teams

How to combat Zoom fatigue on your team

Here are the symptoms, science, and solutions to combating Zoom fatigue and virtual meeting fatigue at work

Marc Hedlund on sponsorship

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 12 Takeaways

Who’s going back?

A list of companies going fully remote, hybrid, or back to the office.

Harper Reed on giving everyone a voice in team meetings

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 11 Takeaways

Harper Reed on giving everyone a voice in team meetings

How meetings can support accessibility, inclusivity, and innovation

Nine years of efficient meetings: Lessons learned from Range's VP of Engineering

The evolution of check-in meetings

Jean Hsu

Akhil Gupta on navigating uncertainty when transitioning roles

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 10 Takeaways

Flexible work is key

How to get things done when you're languishing

Jean Hsu

How Wellthy uses Range to make their meetings more engaging and effective

Wellthy’s remote teams uses async Check-ins to run better standups, foster transparency, and build connections.

Katie Wilde on supporting your team's mental health

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 9 Takeaways

How our structured meetings reinforce our team principles

Making space for personal reflections during our team meeting

Uma Chingunde on starting a VPE role in a pandemic

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 8 Takeaways

The 6 Best Daily Standup Tools (Free & Paid)

From Slack integrations to async check-ins and video, find the right fit

Kaya Thomas on common challenges of early career engineers

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 7 Takeaways

As an engineering leader, should you be working with a coach?

All your questions about leadership coaching, answered

Jean Hsu

This team is on fire: Strategies to help remote teams battle burnout

Strategies to battle burnout and support your remote team

How to solve for silos and strengthen communication on your remote team

3 reasons communication breaks down on remote teams and how to fix it

Lead Time Chats, Episode 6: Lara Hogan

Lara Hogan speaks to Jean Hsu for Lead Time Chats

Lara Hogan on leading effectively in a pandemic

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 6 Takeaways

Lead Time Chats, Episode 5: Gergely Orosz

Gergely Orosz speaks to Jean Hsu for Lead Time Chats

Gergely Orosz on the decision to go into management

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 5 Takeaways

Lead Time Chats, Episode 4: Juan Pablo Buriticá

Juan Pablo Buriticá speaks to Jean Hsu for Lead Time Chats

Lead Time Chats, Episode 3: Cate Huston

Cate Huston speaks to Jean Hsu for Lead Time Chats

Lead Time Chats, Episode 1: Will Larson

Will Larson, CTO of Calm, speaks to Jean Hsu for Lead Time Chats

Cate Huston on working with an external coach

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 3 Takeaways

Juan Pablo Buriticá on common engineering manager mistakes

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 4 Takeaways

Virtual Team Communication – How to solve for silos and strengthen your team's results

Learn the ins and outs of ways to keep your remote team communicating effectively

Lead Time Chats, Episode 2: Duretti Hirpa

Duretti Hirpa speaks to Jean Hsu for Lead Time Chats

Meet Lead Time, a new community for engineering leaders

Focused on creating better working environments, and featuring an interview series, Lead Time Chats, where top engineering leaders share learning and growth perspectives

Will Larson on the path of the senior engineer

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 1 Takeaways

New feature alert: customize your Check-ins schedule and reminders

Range now works even better with you and your team’s workflows

Sean McBride

What people operations can learn from product development

3 lessons human resources should steal from product teams

Jennifer Dennard

Working from home may be painful, but it's making the future of work better

How remote work is changing the fabric of work for the better

Jennifer Dennard

How Adobe uses Range to foster team culture across time zones

Across the US and India, Kristen Toole and her Content Experiences & Innovation team use Check-ins and Meetings to strengthen connections

What 2020 taught us about being an effective leader

3 tips and tactics that helped us find success during a tough year

Jennifer Dennard

Will the real emoji Santa please step forward

Exploring Santa's internet presence

Yoobin Han

Getting asynchronous communications right

Viewpoints from B2B SaaS leaders

Out with Manager READMEs, in with Handbooks for everyone

Why every teammate should have one

Dan Pupius

3 anti-patterns to avoid in your standup culture at all costs

Standups are a tool for aligning and unblocking, not for controlling

5 ways to transform your standup into the feel-good meeting your team deserves

How to build trust and improve alignment at work

9 practical tips to make your next standup meeting way better

How to get, and keep, your standup on track and effective

We just made standups way easier with the Range Chrome extension

Add 20 new apps to sync activity from your tools and add any webpage to your Check-in with two clicks.

Joseph Miller

How to upgrade your remote standup meetings for hybrid work

Balancing async check-ins with video calls

Our Pulse Check Survey: insights in how the tech world is adapting to the new normal

Mental health more of a concern than productivity

Dan Pupius

Our new eBook of Team Questions

60 Team building questions to help you foster alignment, strengthen connection, and build trust

Nick Walsh

Range wins the “Team Collaboration Innovation of the Year” category of the 2020 Remote Tech Breakthrough Awards

International awards program honors outstanding remote technology companies

Nick Walsh

Stop doom scrolling and start helping your team through this election

Ways to support your team during the upcoming news cycle

Jennifer Dennard

Announcing our new newsletter, Lead Time

Insights to support your growth as a leader, right to your inbox

Michael Boykin

How to run a team meeting | top tactical meeting processes

And why your team should be using them

Jennifer Dennard

Talking resilience with Tiffany Dufu from The Cru

Bite-sized insights from thought leaders | Resilience, part 6

Introducing Range for Microsoft Teams

Bring the power of daily Check-ins into Teams, so everyone stays more focused, productive, and connected

Dan Pupius

How to onboard new remote developers

Advice from a remote-first CEO

Talking resilience with Itamar Goldminz from HyperScience

Bite-sized insights from thought leaders | Resilience, part 5

Talking resilience with Ben Werdmuller from ForUsAll

Bite-sized insights from thought leaders | Resilience, part 4

5 ways to improve remote collaboration on your team

How to foster engagement and get better results when working from home

The Guide to Windowed Work

Check out our new eBook on how to rethink your workweek

Talking resilience with Roy Bahat of Bloomberg Beta

Bite-sized insights from thought leaders | Resilience, part 3

The Tech Therapy Podcast

Dan talks empowering high-quality company culture, inclusivity, and remote work with host David Ingraham

How to Run More Effective Remote Standups

Getting the most out of the time you spend together as a team

How Managers Can Support Remote Teams

How to use Range to keep your remote teams in sync and productive, no matter where they are

What are Check-ins and how to use them as status updates with your team

A better way to run your stand ups in 4 steps

Talking resilience with Evan Sharp of Pinterest

Bite-sized insights from thought leaders | Resilience, part 2

Meet Jean Hsu, Range’s new VP of Engineering

Jean joins us after founding her own engineering coaching company and building product teams at Google, Pulse, and Medium

Talking resilience with Gabe Kleinman of Obvious Ventures

Bite-sized insights from thought leaders | Resilience, part 1

How to push forward your diversity and inclusion efforts with purpose

Webinar: Getting D&I right when working from home

Michael Boykin

A map to planning your workday

5 steps to follow to improve your productivity

10 tips for designing Slack apps

Why designing Slack apps is totally different

Braden Kowitz

Introducing the new Range app for Slack

Keep your team connected, no matter where they’re working.

Braden Kowitz

8 reasons why you shouldn't feel bad about liking your office

(Band)wagons are for the Oregon Trail, not deciding what's best for the team

Big city kid in rural America

Trans lives and the journey to becoming an ally

Inspiration near and far

How a friend showed me what real change looks like

Nick Walsh

Unspoken realities

Acknowledging systemic bias in all its forms

Dan Pupius

Have we not always known ourselves

Pushing forward to find our way back to the truth

Michael Boykin

Pride, pandemic, and protest

Embracing a more inclusive vision of Pride this year

Sean McBride

Small town Georgia

Using history to understand the present

Jennifer Dennard

A world of change

Celebrating Pride with stories of empathy and inclusion

Your go to resource for making your standup meetings work for you

Practical guidance on how to do status meetings on your team

How to Make Virtual Meetings More Fun: 5 activities to try

Quick & effective team-building activities to boost engagement during remote meetings

Dan Pupius

Are you even a team?

Why you should be using contextual practices over best practices

Dan Pupius

This Week in Startups community AMA

A TWIST Q&A on building culture, navigating WFH, product development, and the evolving changes to the startup world

Michael Boykin

4 ways to be a better partner at work

How to build trust and transparency with your manager

This Week in Startups podcast

Dan's lively chat with Jason Calacanis

Getting resilience right

How to build it into the fabric of your team

Dan Pupius

Better team updates with GROW

Keep your teams in sync with quick and consistent written updates

Dan Pupius

Fostering culture and connections in a remote world

Webinar: A deep dive into strengthening remote team culture

Michael Boykin

6 tips for running more productive remote meetings

Keep your meetings on time and on topic

How to keep yourself sane when WFH

Tips from the Range team

What are OKRs | How to Write Them Using Range

Define success, not activities

Nick Walsh

It’s time to rethink the workweek

A balancing act that warrants all of our attention

Dan Pupius

How to network inside of your organization

An interview with Karen Wickre, author of Taking the Work Out of Networking, on how to think about networking inside of your organization

Nick Walsh

Creating great remote onboarding experiences

Webinar: Best practices for remote onboarding

Michael Boykin

Remote onboarding — 15 ways to create a great experience

Make no HQ no problem

Solving micromanagement when managing remote teams

Webinars: Overcoming micromanagement as a remote manager

Michael Boykin

6 tips for getting remote work right

Principles and practices to help you thrive as a remote team member

Preparing your team for remote work

Webinar: How to get your team ready for a remote transition

Nick Walsh

Diving into Remote Work

a primer

Nick Walsh

5 tips to help you get more value from Range

Insights and advice from engineering leaders who have been where you are today

Jennifer Dennard

So you want to be an engineering manager

Insights and advice from engineering leaders who have been where you are today

Jennifer Dennard

4 key takeaways from our webinar on remote employee engagement

Webinar: How leadership shapes the remote employee experience

Michael Boykin

Tools for remote engineering teams

What to consider when adopting software for a distributed company

How to help teams realize their full potential

a primer

Nick Walsh

Range raises $6 million in seed funding to help organizations build successful teams

Dan Pupius

Servant: Your role as a leader in the modern workforce

An interview with Medium’s Chief Architect Xiao Ma on putting the concept of servant leadership into practice

Michael Boykin

New Year: Strengthen your team with icebreakers

See our favorites

Nick Walsh

Understanding and developing SMART objectives for your team

Why strong team objectives matter, and how to create them

How GitLab and InVision hire and onboard remote teammates

Takeaways from Range’s Meetup panel on hiring remote teammates

Jennifer Dennard

Where to begin when hiring for remote work

An interview with Joe Cheung, Operating Partner, Talent at Craft Ventures

Michael Boykin

Slack collaboration tools that will improve your team’s collaboration

Boost team collaboration with these Slack tools

Learning to lead for a future of remote work

A white paper on remote work—the history, myths, benefits, and how to build and lead a team for the future

How Replicated reengaged remote team members in building company culture

A Range customer story

Michael Boykin

How to make cross-functional collaboration work at your company

What is cross-functional collaboration, why it matters, and how to become a team that plays well with others

The first-time manager — 5 practical tips for navigating the challenges of managing people

If you're like most first-time managers, you might be asking yourself what exactly is a new manager supposed to do?

Leadership reading list

A collection of essential books that meaningfully affected our team

Dan Pupius

How to lead a distributed team

4 tips on what to do when your team is suddenly split across two or more locations

Jennifer Dennard

6 ideas to foster stronger teamwork in the workplace

Build a stronger team with these tactical tips

Master the status report with these 4 simple questions

4 must-answer questions for your status report template

5 foolproof ways to fix your team’s bad meeting

Everything you ever needed to know to improve your terrible, horrible, no good, very bad team meeting

A weekly work plan template to improve your workflow

A complete guide on how to plan and optimize your workweek

The power of critique

How to improve feedback on your team

Braden Kowitz

6 lessons in leadership learned from Plato’s Elevate Summit

Tips and advice for building and managing high-performance product and engineering teams

Braden Kowitz

How company culture impacts your bottom line

What happens to revenue when your team lacks clarity

The design leadership journey

An interview with Mia Blume, CEO of Design Dept.

Braden Kowitz

8 lessons learned from our mini-conference on goal setting and OKRs

Whether new to or experienced with OKRs, here are 8 tips to help you take your objectives to the next level

Michael Boykin

Who should set OKRs for your team?

A conversation with Andrew Beebe, Managing Director, Obvious Ventures

Michael Boykin

Why culture is paramount for design teams

An interview with Sarah Alpern, VP of Design at LinkedIn

Braden Kowitz

Understanding the why behind OKRs

An interview with CTO and engineering leader Mike Wu

Michael Boykin

Being a year-round LGBTQIA ally

Especially after Pride Month, the fight for inclusion and equality continues

Michael Boykin

Why company culture matters to leadership

An interview with Replicated CEO Grant Miller

Michael Boykin

Empathy and inclusion in People Operations

How to build inclusion into your People Operations strategy and policies

Jennifer Dennard

Our world is LGBTQIA. Your workplace should be too

Ellen Pao on how leaders can build an inclusive workplace

Ellen Pao

Celebrating LGBTQ Pride Month at work

6 meaningful ways you can help your company celebrate Pride Month

Michael Boykin

How to build an inclusive work environment by holding space

3 tips anyone can use to build a more inclusive team

Jennifer Dennard

How to prevent workplace burnout on your team

With burnout now classified as a medical condition by the World Health Organization, how should you better support your team?

Why individual OKRs don’t work

Find your focus, establish context, set priorities as a team

Sorry, there is no one tool to rule them all

Finding and embracing the right project management and productivity tools for your team

OKRs and Agile not only can work together, they should

Make a successful process even more outcome-driven

How to overcome the most common workplace distractions

5 ways to prevent office distractions from spoiling your work day

Michael Boykin

Building bridges to overcome organizational silos

Why busting silos might not be the best approach to getting your teams well-aligned

Michael Boykin

Glossary: Remote vs. Distributed

The subtle but important difference between being remote and being distributed

Michael Boykin

Managing remote teams — Overcoming the 3 most common challenges

Key takeaways from Range’s mini-conference on leading remote and distributed teams

How to take action on engagement survey results

4 steps to improve employee engagement after your pulse survey

Jennifer Dennard

Building remote teams for a distributed workforce | Range

How to overcome the challenges of managing a distributed workforce

Michael Boykin

11 ways our brains trip us up at work

Understanding how cognitive biases affect us in the workplace

Dan Pupius

Scaling without losing your team's connectedness

How to keep that small-team feeling as your team scales

Michael Boykin

How to write a great technical design document

Help your team write better tech specs with this simple template

Dan Pupius

Are you doing OKRs right?

A conversation with OKR-expert Ken Norton from Google Ventures

Braden Kowitz

Understanding complexity

A short primer on why complex systems require different ways of acting and making decisions

Dan Pupius

Good objective, bad objective

How to set goals that build alignment and accountability

Dan Pupius

How many direct reports should a manager have?

Balancing the desire for flat organizations with the realities of effective management

Dan Pupius

When you don’t know how to fix your product

Conquering uncertainty in product management

Braden Kowitz

3 ways to reduce information overload on your team

Design your communication, or it it will design you.

Braden Kowitz

Leadership is knowing when to let go

Micromanaging and tightly controlling your team will disempower them and erode initiative taking.

Dan Pupius

The importance of a good operating cadence

The power of good process and why it’s important to nail your operational cadence

Dan Pupius

Intentionally building team culture

with Molly Stevens of Uber

Braden Kowitz

How you can build trust on your team in a few minutes a day

Strengthen team connections and company culture on a daily basis

Jennifer Dennard

Standups are broken

There's a better way to keep everyone connected

Braden Kowitz

Encouraging emotions at work

How to build a culture of openness and vulnerability

Jennifer Dennard

Becoming a better manager

with Andrew Sandler of Grand Rounds

Braden Kowitz

Shades of change

A simple visualization that can help make change less painful

Dan Pupius

5 questions a manager should ask themselves every week

Leaders, help your team succeed by asking yourself these 5 questions every week

Dan Pupius

We shape our software; thereafter it shapes us

Can software nudge us to be more creative, inclusive, and fair at work?

Dan Pupius

Make the most of your meetings

10 ways to improve your team meetings

Sean McBride

Opening and closing rounds

How the start of a meeting can be the beginning of so much more

Braden Kowitz

What we look for

A look inside Range’s hiring criteria

Dan Pupius

Hello World

A range of possibility

Dan Pupius