How to start meeting prep
Think about the topics that you typically cover at your meeting. For our internal team, it’s usually something like this:
Product roadmap
Engineering blockers
Marketing efforts
Team logistics
Miscellaneous news
Brainstory will help you with thought organization, so you don’t need to be super clear on what your topics will be in advance. Because you’ve had this kind of meeting before, you’ll very naturally elaborate and give context where you have in the past. Start talking and Brainstory will do the rest!
Sharing your Brainstory
Once you’ve finished your Brainstory, share it with your coworkers. For a recurring meeting, you typically only need to give people a few hours of advance notice to review it. For our internal team, our usual cadence is sending out the weekly Brainstory on Sunday evenings for a Monday mid-day meeting.
We love Brainstory’s guided navigation, especially through extensive proposal documents because it alleviates that initial sense of being overwhelmed.
Feedback aggregation
Encourage people to respond to your meeting prep within Brainstory. This will aggregate everyone’s feedback onto a singular document for a source of truth. Giving feedback on Brainstory is a powerful experience that levels the meeting playing field.
Meeting time!
Brainstory will flag the topics that need any extra discussion and clarification. Otherwise, it’s simply a matter of deciding what to do next! The hardest part of a meeting— getting everyone on the same page about facts and context— is done in advance.
For us internally, we can often make a decision async based on the feedback aggregation, so we don’t need to meet at all. As you use Brainstory, you’ll get to this stage faster and faster!
