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Dylan Petro

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Joined on June 8th, 2016

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Marketing, Wearables, Developer Tools

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Hey PH! I'm Dylan - one of the makers of MeetLoaf - a tool for instantly pairing and scheduling 1:1 (currently virtual) meetings for your colleagues to get to know eachother better and connect across teams. Why MeetLoaf When organizations grow, teams often become siloed. As remote work trends (and currently dominates), organic interactions happen less frequently. We built MeetLoaf to empower People Teams to solve these problems by setting up times for peers to get to know each other better, with a product focused on simplicity and time-savings for both those setting up meetings and those participating. Plus - meeting and learning about your colleagues is fun and enriching! Why we handle scheduling Adrian and I previously created a dating app that automatically set up dates at a specific time and place. Cutting the scheduling back-and-forth lead to a much higher rate of follow-through than typical dating apps. At an event presenting our app, we met an awesome individual in organizational development who suggested we apply the instant match and schedule approach to companies who wanted to build connections across teams. We found a handful of products that excelled in pairing, but found that without a predefined plan, these introductions would often not make it into someone's calendar. By setting the time automatically, we believe people will meet at a higher rate, yielding higher overall company cohesion. Enjoy! And please let us know if you have any feedback!

1yr ago

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@jinahlee1234 Thanks Jin Ah! To your point, we tried to make it as seamless as possible and easy for everyone to get on board - that's probably the biggest barrier to teams trying this out. As for us trying them - most of the time they've really helped us get grounded for our meetings. Some work better for different types of tasks than others and for different headspaces. We've found the One Word warm-up to be pretty reliable across the board! We'll try to get a demo of that up!

1yr ago

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Hey ya'll - Dylan here, For the last few months my partner Adrian and I have been experimenting with different types of meeting warm-ups. We put them together in this handy generator for you to enjoy and use with your team! We were inspired by this awesome post from IDEO to try starting at least one meeting a week with a warm-up. (credit to my girlfriend for finding the post). When we started looking for ideas we found that most were either: - Icebreakers for people who didn't know each other - 10-15 minutes or longer - Involved various materials (cards, M&Ms, etc) - Required the meetings be in-person - human knot anyone? We were looking for something that could quickly get us in sync and ready to collaborate, so we started making our own with the following characteristics: - Works for people who know each other well - 2-3 minutes long - No assembly required - Equally useful for in-person and remote teams We currently have 20 different types of warm-ups that generate over 350 unique warm-ups. We'll keep adding to the library and also welcome any of your favorites (and of course any feedback on existing ones). Enjoy!

1yr ago