1. Join meetings on time. When a large group of team members are forced to wait on someone before they can start it wastes everyone’s time. Show up on time, come ready to do work.
2. Participation is not optional. Join the meeting from a location and setting where you can actively participate. If you can’t join, or have something else that’s more important; decline the meeting and send a slack message to the organizer. If you come to the meeting, show up, engage and pay attention.
3. Cameras on. This doesn’t mean every second of every meeting, but if you’re routinely joining meetings without turning your camera on you need to correct this behavior. Cameras help to improve the speed with which we can all communicate and improves the quality and clarity of our conversations.
4. Prepare an agenda. If you propose a meeting it should have an agenda doc linked in the calendar invite that clearly shows what we’re meeting about, what decisions we need to make and what our goals are.
5. If you organize it, you drive it. If you set up a meeting the expectation is that you’re going to send an agenda, and run the meeting. The organizer should drive the conversation in the meeting.