WorkPatterns guides agenda collaboration for all your meetings & converts decisions to action items for accountability. As work is completed, notifications increase alignment without disruptive pings. Assistants reinforce management best practices.
Great collaboration-communication tool in support of one-to-one meetings allows for easy organization of topics to be discussed as well as for managing feedback, comments, ideas, rewards and more.
It can be used for any type of consulting, coaching or remote assistance/counselling work.
Very easy to onboard and simple to use.
Definitely better than Google Docs which I have used so far for this purpose.
Incredibly enough it seems Workpatterns allows me to do most of what I need with the 100% free account. This is why I'd highly recommend this tool, and I will be promoting generously it to my readers just to feel okay in having paid my moral obligation to the beautiful team who has made this tool a reality. Thanks!
Thanks for hunting our product and for all you do in the PH community @pollock
Hi there Product Hunt!
Over my career, I've struggled personally with growing from an individual contributor, to a manager, and eventually an executive (most recently President and CMO at AdRoll/NextRoll.)
Some things I didn't know and had to learn along the way, and some things just didn't come naturally, so I let them fall between the cracks. I had top-down performance management tools instrumented by our HR team, but they weren’t designed to help manage the day-to-day.
So 2 years ago @dmitriskj , @noah_duncan2 & I joined forces to build WorkPatterns — a toolkit for guided 1:1s, team meetings, feedback, recognition, and all the things a manager needs to thrive in a dynamic work environment.
As 2020 kicked off and teams found themselves in an indefinite ‘WFH’ environment, it was clear that our vision for the future of work accelerated by several years.
Since then, we’ve worked closely with early adopters who were intentionally seeking a tool like ours, and we’re so grateful for their feedback. Now, we’d love your feedback PH community!
Here are some things we’ve added recently:
- New onboarding flow for easy setup
- Asynchronous video messaging to build connection and to avoid the misinterpretations that come with chat and email
- Integrations with Slack & MS Teams
- Calendar integration to improve the timeliness of meeting preparation
- Integrations with almost any video conferencing software to start meetings directly from your workspace
Some things coming soon:
- Goals!
- Asana & Jira integrations
We’re offering a 30 day free trial of our premium product tier with no credit card required, and you can keep using the free version of the product indefinitely. So feel free to give it a risk-free run by creating an account, let us know what you think, and fire away with any questions!
@elainetsai Thanks for the kind words! Analytics is definitely an avenue worth exploring. Use cases is a bit amorphous but, as an example, auto-summarizing work done this week enables individual contributors to show progress while spending more time on high-leverage tasks. Are you thinking of something specific?
Timing couldn't be more perfect with the transition to remote work. Additionally, there are so many moving up in the workforce, and in charge of managing people for the first time - great toolkit to being an effective manager and leader.
This product is awesome! It's much better than the monitor post-it system that I'm used to!
I'm curious as to how customizable the 1-1 flow is in the app is. 1-1s with direct reports might be more deliverable focused, whereas 1-1s in middle management may focus on career development, strategy, and other less "checkmarkable" things.
@david_huie1 Ha, the old monitor lion's mane of post its :) You're absolutely right, and we've designed the product with that in mind. We have features like "recurring discussion topics" to help you check in on longer term development/strategy topics, but also have action items with clear ownership and due dates for more tactical things. We also have purpose built flows for feedback and recognition that are specifically designed for career development. Hope that helps!
This is a uniquely special product for a period of time where remote work has been brought to the forefront of our lives. Do yourself a favor and sign up so you can stay connected with all of your fellow co workers and improve the quality of your 1:1's.
@mrosoff Thanks for your support! We started on the path of building WorkPatterns long before working remotely became an indefinite reality for us all. That said, it's definitely become a need to have for so many distributed teams.
Has been a game changer for us since going fully remote. Previously we were relying on GDocs for 1:1s which looks, feels, and acts like an archaic system now that we're using WorkPatterns. WP is just a great product; it works, it's fast, it's well designed, and the team acts on feedback. It's been great. Our teams / individuals / managers love it.
@dan_o_connell3 Thanks Dano! It's been awesome working with you and your feedback and insights have been invaluable. You have an awesome team over there at Dialpad!
This has been a great product to hold members of my team accountable to their goals. I used WorkPatterns to help with a team member who had issues with communication and meeting their goals during our 1:1s. I used to scribble down notes during our 1:1s and at the end of it, I barely understood what I wrote or what concrete goals we had set. Not only did WorkPatterns help me organize my thoughts and prepare for 1:1s more efficiently, it also held my team members accountable with action items and goals that they needed to complete. It's been a game-changer to say the least!
@steph_chen1 thanks for your support! Our vision is to improve workplace relationships and it's a delight to see this manifesting in practice. Lots of new features coming your way!
Before Workpatterns, we were emailing our meeting agendas as word documents. Now, there's no need for that! It's all included in the app and so much more :) what a great product! Can't imagine work life without it
This is gonna be game changer, it would be if it can work with outlook so that we can keep tabs of mails too. Even we can send the action items over mail.
I think your heading on your website should be "WorkPatterns is the modern manager’s toolkit for 1:1s, feedback, & recognition" because that's a selling point of your awesome tool.
I heard of WorkPatterns just as our company went fully remote in March 2020. It's simply and beautifully built. Serves a clear need and addresses an unfilled vacuum in my workflows. I feel it makes me a better manager of people.
@easom_nathan It’s been awesome working with you Nathan. Had a great call with Maya this morning and we look forward to rolling out more broadly. Thanks for being our champion!
WorkPatterns has helped make our company more efficient by increasing transparencies between managers and team members. Very glad to have begun using this early on once we went remote.
The landscape of managing teams changes rapidly. WorkPatterns is extremely responsive to addressing those needs and building a sleek solution to new use cases.
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