Yac | Blog

May 19, 2022

How to Cut Out 97% of Your Client Meetings in a Week

Learn how one agency cut 97% of employee meetings and how you can too.

Sprint Retrospective vs. Review: Which is better for your team?

Sprint reviews and retrospectives are different, but both are essential. Learn more about these meetings and how to use them to improve your team’s productivity.

A Manager’s Guide for Holding Effective Weekly Check-ins

Weekly check-ins can be extremely valuable ways to keep up with your team. Learn how you can gather updates more effectively.

Everything You Need to Know About Ad-Hoc Meetings (and Why They’re Not Always Necessary)

Find out why ad-hoc meetings aren’t all they’re cracked up to be and how asynchronous communication is the perfect alternative.

6 Ways to Encourage Water Cooler Talk in a Remote Working World

Water cooler talk has a lot of surprising benefits that can improve your work culture and it’s easier to implement for remote teams than you think.

Yac's Remote Company Retreat

Yac was founded as a remote company enabling other companies to work well remotely. One of the negative aspects of being a remote team is the effort it takes to come together for co-located work and bonding. Yac firmly believes that the best place and time to get most of your work done is in a place of your own choosing on your own schedule, we do believe that working co-located achieves some things better. In the pursuit of feeling the closeness of co-location and time together, we decided to meet up in Tampa, Florida to work and play together for a company retreat in late January 2022.

How to Effectively Share Weekly Team Updates

Too many teams are holding wasteful and unproductive weekly team meetings—but there are better ways to get team updates while promoting deep work.

How to Run Skip-Level Meetings

Skip-level meetings can be a key part of business growth. Learn more about when to hold one and how to do so asynchronously.

30-60-90 Day Plan: How to Create One

The primary objective of onboarding should be to set your new hires up for success. Find out if the 30-60-90 day onboarding plan could work for your team.

34 Zoom Memes

Give yourself some much-needed comic relief with this collection of over 30 hilarious and painfully relatable Zoom memes.

How to Find the Right Meeting Cadence (While Maintaining Productivity & Deep Work)

Meeting cadence refers to the frequency that your team’s meetings occur—which is probably too often. Learn how to reduce your meeting load.

How to Communicate Effectively as a Remote Company

What’s the best way to keep up communication with a remote team? We show you how to communicate effectively while working remotely in this complete guide.

The Four-Day Work Week is Coming: How to Prepare and Experiment Today

Are you ready for the four-day work week? Here’s how to overcome obstacles and increase productivity with a shortened work week.

Blog Posts

Featured Posts

6 Ways to Encourage Water Cooler Talk in a Remote Working World

Everything You Need to Know About Ad-Hoc Meetings (and Why They’re Not Always Necessary)

Sprint Retrospective vs. Review: Which is better for your team?

A Manager’s Guide for Holding Effective Weekly Check-ins

How to Cut Out 97% of Your Client Meetings in a Week

Sprint Retrospective vs. Review: Which is better for your team?

A Manager’s Guide for Holding Effective Weekly Check-ins

Everything You Need to Know About Ad-Hoc Meetings (and Why They’re Not Always Necessary)

6 Ways to Encourage Water Cooler Talk in a Remote Working World

Yac's Remote Company Retreat

How to Effectively Share Weekly Team Updates

How to Run Skip-Level Meetings

30-60-90 Day Plan: How to Create One

34 Zoom Memes

How to Find the Right Meeting Cadence (While Maintaining Productivity & Deep Work)

How to Communicate Effectively as a Remote Company

The Four-Day Work Week is Coming: How to Prepare and Experiment Today

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