Hardly none manager can maintain that 9:00 a.m. Monday meetings a fully-efficient and interactive. All the more in a context of remote working generalization, it’s time C-levels and manager succeeded in involving deeper their coworkers during meetings, be they via Zoom, Microsoft Teams or (rarely) at the office. To do so, they should anticipate the meeting, provide their employees with key information they should know before the meeting, clearly define, schedule and prioritize who is going to talk on which topic. At the end of the meeting, everyone should have a place dedicated to feedbacks, to access information and data mentioned during the meeting.
What's the magic solution ?
Our solution is creating a Slack channel every single time a meeting is scheduled. In other words, as soon as a meeting is created in a Outlook Agenda, a slack-channel named « reunion-XX/XX » (xx stands for the date) is automatically created.
Do you want to understand the process ? Let's have a look below:
Whenever someone of your team or firm creates an meeting on Outlook, Zapier gets the information and a webhook is generated. This webhook initializes a program which will generate a Slack channel. Easy as ABC ! You can no create a new message to say who is gonna bring croissant on Monday !
Have a try ! You won't be disappointed !
- Create a new Zap by click on Make a Zap
- Search and select Microsoft Outlook
- Click on the « New Calendar Event » button
- Click on « Continue »
- Connect the raw to your Outlook account then « Continue »
- Click on « Calendar » in the « customize event » section
- You will need to test the trigger: click on « test your trigger »
- Search and select Slack
- Click on « Create Channel » then Continue
- Connect the raw to your Slack account then continue
- Fill in the blank with the name of your Slack channel: write « meeting- » then click on « Start Date Time »