Play of the Month: Stay up to date with your team!

[Lauren McGoodwin]

Keeping updated on everything your teammates are working on can be a real challenge, especially for distributed teams.

With the Weekly Team Updates Play, you can save time, share information, and boost your team’s performance—without scheduling another meeting.

The Weekly Team Update Play is a quick, asynchronous recap of achievements, projects, and roadblocks shared at the start or end of each week. It's a low-effort practice with a big impact no matter where your team logs in.

I’ve been using Loom to share my weekly team update each Friday, and it’s been essential in helping me stay aligned with my goals and gather input early on when a project gets stalled. Plus, I will often watch the videos from my teammates during a time that works best for my individual schedule so I never have to worry about missing their updates and celebrating their wins.

How does your team stay updated on each other's work? Would you consider using the Weekly Updates method? What appeals to you about it?

We’d love to hear from you, so please comment below and let us know your thoughts! 🚀

(PS: By adding a comment, you’ll make progress towards earning the Play as a Team kudos badge!)

[Laurie Sciutti]

I'm all for efficiency, especially when it eliminates another useless meeting.  Thank you, @Lauren McGoodwin !

[Lauren McGoodwin]

Ditto @Laurie Sciutti!! 

[Amanda Barber]

Love this use of Loom! It seems like an especially great idea for teams working across time zones. 

[Lauren McGoodwin]

Absolutely @Amanda Barber 

[Tomislav Tobijas]

This just gave me an 💡 idea to record this week's update via Loom and send it to the team as I won't be able to attend next week's meeting. Cheers for sharing! 🙌

[Lauren McGoodwin]

Look at you already using the Play in action @Tomislav Tobijas !!

[John Funk]

Yes, the use of Loom would be great for this!

[Sandra Franchetto]

When I have a team will definitely be using Loom cause it's a great, easy to use product. Love the concept of weekly team update so everyone is kept in the know. 👍

[Stephen_Lugton]

Although the use of Loom would be great for this we are hesitant to use it due to the licensing cost being per seat, if it were per use we would adopt it for this kind of update

[Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM]

I struggle with this use of loom. I do really want to embrace it, but I am having a hard time.

While I like many of the other use cases, I see this one as burdensome, recording a video and expecting my team to watch it, vs using Confluence or Trello to state my goals and expectations to the team.

[Shivam Sharma]

We primarily use Google Meet for weekly and daily updates, which makes scheduling and rescheduling easy, with the added benefit of Google Workspace’s chat and cloud recording features. I love your use of Loom for flexibility, but for us, Google Meet has been effective in keeping everyone aligned.

[Asad]

Loved it!! Thank you!