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6 hacks to improve any meeting on 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 on Working on Hybrid Teams

Lead Time Chats: Season 2, Episode 12 Takeaways

Sarah Milstein on Setting Remote and Hybrid Teams Up for Success

Lead Time Chats: Season 2, Episode 11 Takeaways

The real meaning of accountability in the workplace

4 steps to reframing and mastering accountability on your team

How to run more effective daily standup meetings

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

5 Most Common Meeting Pet Peeves

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

Jean Hsu

Jack Danger on Technical Debt

Lead Time Chats: Season 2, Episode 10 Takeaways

Indrajit Khare on Getting Acquired by Google

Lead Time Chats: Season 2, Episode 9 Takeaways

Inspiring meeting accountability through action items

Tips and a template to help make action items way more actionable

Make note-taking a no brainer with this template

Here’s all you need to start taking better meeting notes

Beau Lebens on Distributed Team Meetups

Lead Time Chats: Season 2, Episode 8 Takeaways

Lynne Tye on the Engineering Hiring Landscape

Lead Time Chats: Season 2, Episode 7 Takeaways

Run better meetings with Range

A tool for more efficient, effective, and inclusive meetings

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.

Chris Bee on Behaviors of Effective Engineering Leaders

Lead Time Chats: Season 2, Episode 6 Takeaways

Meeting Agendas for high performing teams

Ready-to-use templates for 1:1s, sprint planning, retros, and more

Three traits of every great meeting

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

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

Meeting Facilitation Cheat Sheet

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

Jean Hsu

Too many meetings? Here’s how to fix that.

Team-level strategies for reducing your meeting load and protecting focus time

The power of planning your day

6 strategies to help you plan your day for max productivity and personal well-being

Rachael Stedman on IC Manager Work

Lead Time Chats: Season 2, Episode 5 Takeaways

Why you have too many meetings

Four root causes to meeting overload and what you can do about them

Braden Kowitz

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

Sumeet Arora on moving on from a big company

Lead Time Chats: Season 2, Episode 4 Takeaways

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.

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 work software: 10 tools your team needs in 2021

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

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 to 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

Team-building questions that build trust & connection at work

Here are my seven favorite icebreakers and download 60 more.

Michael Boykin

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 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

Getting started with Check-in meetings

Level up your team meetings by running them like this

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

Top 3 online drawing games for remote team building

Draw and laugh together to boost team culture

Jean Hsu

Uma Chingunde on starting a VPE role in a pandemic

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 8 Takeaways

Six fun remote team building activities

Ideas for helping your remote team feel more like a team

The 6 Best Daily Standup Tools (based on what your team needs)

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

Juan Pablo Buriticá on common engineering manager mistakes

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 4 Takeaways

Cate Huston on working with an external coach

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 3 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

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

Lead Time Chats, Episode 2: Duretti Hirpa

Duretti Hirpa speaks to Jean Hsu for Lead Time Chats

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 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 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

How to Run More Effective Remote Standups

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

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

A world of change

Celebrating Pride with stories of empathy and inclusion

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

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

Unspoken realities

Acknowledging systemic bias in all its forms

Dan Pupius

Small town Georgia

Using history to understand the present

Jennifer Dennard

5 fun activities to engage virtual meeting participants

Fun, quick, and 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

Announcing our Helping Hand program

Range is free for certain qualifying groups and we’re offering a $1,000 credit to startups and small businesses

Dan Pupius

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

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

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

Icebreaker questions for teams - a list of our favorites

Learn how to strengthen team culture

Nick Walsh

Understanding and developing SMART objectives for your team

Why strong objectives matter, and how to create them

Setting goals vs. objectives: a mini guide for managers

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

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

6 actionable strategies to build trust on your team

Trust in your colleagues is a key motivator. Here's how to build trust in the workplace and succeed

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?

The essential guide to 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?

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

3 new approaches to teamwork in the workplace

How to promote effective teamwork on your team and in the workplace

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

What is a micromanaging boss and how to work toward greater autonomy

Understanding and learning to manage your micromanaging boss

The power of critique

How to improve feedback on your team

Braden Kowitz

A weekly work plan template to improve your workflow

A complete guide on how to plan and optimize your workweek

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

An introduction to psychological safety

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

Michael Boykin

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 better technical design document

Help your team write a great design document with this simple template

Dan Pupius

How to give better feedback at work

Improving feedback through a collaborative approach

Jennifer Dennard

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 to write a status report (that your team will actually read)

5 simple yet important tips to remember when sharing your next status update

Braden Kowitz

How many direct reports should a manager have?

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

Dan Pupius

How to build a culture of gratitude

Gratitude is extremely powerful when done well

Jennifer Dennard

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

5 questions a manager should ask themselves every week

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

Dan Pupius

Shades of change

A simple visualization that can help make change less painful

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