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What are SMART goals? We break down how to set SMART goals, and provide examples of how they can benefit individuals, teams, and organizations.

We break down flexibility in the workplace, including why it’s so vitak and what you can do to provide your team with more flexibility.

We break down how to manage Gen Z in the workplace, what they’re looking for, and how to attract and retain Gen Zers.

Show your team you appreciate them with a team celebration! Learn about the benefits of team celebrations and put our ideas into practice.

Learn how to create a brainstorming meeting agenda and how to facilitate an effective brainstorming session.

We break down the benefits of a 30 60 90 day plan, what medium to use, tips for crafting a 30 60 90 day plan when you begin a job, and what to include.

Make every daily standup meeting a success! We break down the benefits of the daily standup meeting, what a successful one looks like, and pitfalls to avoid.

We dive into the types of AI, the best tools for work and productivity, and how to choose the best AI tools for your work.

Announcing AgendaAI. The first AI assistant that converts your Slack firehose into organized meeting agendas.

Learn how to make Slack less distracting and more productive by coming up with a strategy on how to effectively utilize the tool.

In this guide, we'll explore key the difference between goals and objectives and provide tips for setting and achieving both.

Charma co-founder and CEO Adam Berke writes about our decision to rebrand from WorkPatterns to Charma and the future we're striving for.

Learn about what a catch-up meeting is, the benefits of a catch-up meeting, and best practices for running them effectively.

Ten conversation starters managers can go to for one-on-ones when you don't have an agenda.

When we started WorkPatterns (now Charma) in 2018, with the mission to build a better toolkit for people management

Read and save our 40 questions to ask your boss during one-on-ones, performance reviews, and casual conversation.

Could 360 degree feedback benefit your business? Learn about the advantages and disadvantages as well as how to implement it in your organization.

360s are now available in Charma—simplifying what it takes to gather the crucial feedback people need to grow personally and professionally.

A lack of accountability in the workplace jeopardizes trust, work habits, and productivity. This article discusses how to build a positive culture of accountability in your workplace.

One-on-one meetings are the backbone of the employee-manager relationship and vital to a team’s success. Read our 9 one-on-one meeting best practices.

Does your team struggle with social loafing? Are you a social loafer yourself? Learn more about social loafing and how to reduce it on remote teams.

Adaptability Quotient (AQ) measures the ability to adapt. Learn how to improve your adaptability and how businesses can promote adaptability in the workplace.

Goal trackers can be a great way to align team priorities. But if the process becomes so complex that it distracts from getting work done, what's the point?

Giving critical feedback is one of the most impactful things you can do as a manager. It’s also one of the hardest. Can a recent AI breakthrough help improve your feedback?

Use the Getting Things Done system to build better agenda lists and have hyper-effective meetings.

Adaptive leadership helps teams embrace change and continuous improvement. Learn about the principles of adaptive leadership and practical applications.

Learn the difference between asynchronous and synchronous communication, the benefits of asynchronous communication, and how to navigate communication as a remote team.

Working as a distributed team surfaces best practices we should have had all along. Let's move from management by interruption to asynchronous management.

Learn why consistent meeting cadence is important, what cadence options are available, and how to choose the right meeting cadence for your one-on-ones.

Learn why building rapport is essential to a one-on-one meeting and how you can use one-on-ones to build rapport with each of your team members.

The key to better one-on-ones is what happens between meetings— both the manager & employee should collaborate on a shared agenda. So, we updated your workspace layout to facilitate this.

Keep reading to learn more about the importance of building trust in the workplace and 5 simple steps to build trust within virtual teams.

Learn about the Kübler-Ross Change Curve™ (also known as the five stages of grief) so you can lead your team towards continued success in an ever-evolving business landscape.

Learn more about the benefits of change management, including how to implement a change management strategy and change management best practices.

Whether you’re managing remote employees or working across divisions, learning how to navigate the five different communication styles will help you communicate more effectively.

Understand signs of disengagement at work, as well as strategies you can use to improve employee engagement and prevent churn.

Keep your team on track and aligned for actionable results with effective meeting agendas. Pick up some quick tips on building the best meeting agendas.

Decision making as a team can be challenging. This article offers tips on choosing a decision making framework & ideas on different decision making models.

Learn how to be better at giving and receiving constructive criticism, and how to put it into action.

Learn what context switching is, the cost of multitasking, and what you can do to prevent context switching at work.

Learn more about the importance of employee recognition, including the benefits to your business and how to establish a culture of employee appreciation.

Announcing the launch of Goals in Charma. In Charma, goal setting is simplified and, connected to your day-to-day.

Find out what inclusive leadership is and how you can use it to be a better leader.

In this post, we’ll discuss the importance of team meetings, why you need team meeting agendas, and five steps for boosting team morale with effective team meetings.

Motivate employees with a fresh take on inspiring motivation across an organization, and how to maintain that motivation long-term.

We outline seven strategies managers can put into action to finally do meeting preparation right.

Common misguided takeaways readers have from High Output Management by Andy Grove and how managers can leverage the book in their one-on-ones.

Learn what makes a good skip level meeting, how to create a skip level meeting agenda, and key questions for both managers and employees to ask.

Learn about the importance of setting clear expectations as a remote manager and how to set employee expectations for remote workers.

Learn how to utilize a coaching plan in one-on-one meetings, including how to implement the GROW coaching technique to help employees reach their potential.

Learn about the importance of managing up, including when you should manage up, best practices, and common managing up mistakes.

We break down what a ‘zone of genius’ is and how you can discover and utilize your own zone of genius.

An impact vs. effort matrix is a simple yet powerful prioritization tool and is designed to help teams get on the same page.

Using an effective meeting notes template can ensure everyone is on the same page after a meeting. Learn how to make meeting notes work for you and your team.

Manager Assistant puts best practices on autopilot. Improve team morale with suggested topics, frictionless feedback, and employee recognition.

It’s time to take a close look at your management style. Use our list of telltale signs you’re a micromanager and find out how you can improve your management skills.

For many organizations, off-sites are being welcome as an alternative to daily on-site collaboration. In this article, we share our tips and techniques to running effective off-site meetings.

A new year meeting sets your team up for success in the new year ahead. Learn about the benefits of a new year meeting and use our ideas to get started.

Learn about the benefits of an onboarding meeting, how to prepare a first team meeting agenda, and what questions to ask new team members.

Learn more about OKRs, the drawbacks and benefits of OKRs for agile teams, and how agile teams can successfully adopt OKRs.

Introducing People Management Systems—an emerging category filling a problematic void for managers and teams. Welcome to the Future of Work.

Discover which types of one-on-one questions you should absolutely avoid, and what you should be asking instead.

Learn more about the negative impacts of perception bias, including the many different types of perception biases out there and how your team can overcome them.

Performance reviews are challenging for both managers and employees. Learn how to prepare and what performance review questions to ask as a manager or employee.

In this article we discuss personal user manuals, including the benefits, how we utilize them at Charma, and strategies for implementing them in your workplace.

How to run, refine and reap the rewards from your most significant virtual gathering—brought to you by our friends at SavvyCal.

Introducing action items to document decisions made in your one-on-ones and build a culture of accountability in the workplace.

Pick up some remote onboarding best practices from the perspective of employees who went through their own remote onboarding experiences.

An exploration of Tuckman’s five stages of team development, including how they apply to a modern workforce and how managers can use them to build team cohesion.

A manager's framework for measuring and increasing team engagement. Plus, actionable employee engagement ideas and best practices for remote and distributed teams.

Find out what conscious leadership is and how you can use it to become a better leader.

Slack’s main selling point is its greatest flaw. Read about the negative effects of slack holes and fast communication, and pick up some tips for better team workflows.

Understand the basics of transactional leadership, its pros and cons, and what you can do to prevent its limitations.

Uncover the differences between synchronous and asynchronous communication, the pros and cons of synchronous communication, and best practices for remote teams.

Boost team morale for your remote team with five simple techniques, highlighting the importance of morale and signs of low morale.

Having too many meetings is a real issue, and when they are poorly scheduled or run ineffectively, they can disrupt workplace productivity and wellness.

Learn about the many benefits of virtual team building including a list of unique team building activities and free ice breaker ideas.

Understanding millennials in the workplace is critical. Here you’ll find actionable tips and insight into how to motivate and engage millennials.

A comprehensive guide to understanding what transformational leadership is and, how you can develop your leadership skills to adopt its many benefits in your organization.

Pick up four simple strategies for turning team goals into action items, the types of goals your team should set, and how to keep your team on track.

Are there any benefits to micromanagement? How can you be a successful manager by leading your employees instead of breathing down their necks? Here's everything you need to know.

Learn why team building is important, including strategies for running effective team building sessions with remote, distributed, and hybrid teams.

Get practical insight on the benefits and drawbacks of cross-functional collaboration and how you can enhance the effectiveness of your cross-functional team.

For years, insider-led rounds weren’t something to discuss in polite company. Learn why an entrepreneur might opt for an insider-led round over new investors.

Should we want to work without limits? Haven’t so many people been pushed to their limit over the past few years? Is it right to lean into the workaholic culture that is deeply penetrated into our society?

Get the new version of Charma's Chrome extension and never visit charma.com again! Stay in the flow without losing track of discussion topics.

Announcing the beta launch of Charma. Calling all intentional managers and ambitious contributors to get early access!

The Charma design rebrand process according to the 5 principles of logo design

To see through the next phase of our vision, we’re thrilled to announce a new $4.2m round of funding led by our existing investor Javelin Venture Partners, with super pro rata participation from other existing investors Founders Fund (who led our first round), Zoom, and Merus Capital.

Our People Management App is now Available to All Intentional Leaders and Ambitious Teams

Read our year-end staff meeting ideas to help you and your entire team end the year on a high note and greet the new year with enthusiasm.

Charma for Zoom Apps launches, connecting people management to day to day workflows! The new in-meeting experience boosts productivity and engagement. Keep your workflow going before, during, and after your meetings.

Prepare to upgrade your management workflows with a look at how Charma is expressly built for more effective one-on-one meetings.

Manager Dash shows you how your team is using Charma with analytics. Get overviews of meeting collaboration and feedback patterns so you can coach employees.

Many of us have gotten a little too comfortable on Zoom. Use Zoom etiquette 101 to brush up your etiquette, for more productive and engaging meetings.

Zoom validates Charma commitment to giving managers superpowers by selecting us as one of their first investments.

Effective meetings are meetings that work together. Charma is the meeting management system for keeping employees engaged, productive, and aligned.

In this guide, we provide an overarching framework to one-on-one meetings and address how to best approach these meetings as a manager.