Pamela FurstSenior Manager, Customer Success

Team Health = Taco Bell

Name: Team Health = Taco Bell
Uploaded: 2024-09-04T15:46:07+00:00
Duration: 9 s
Channel: Pamela Furst
Description: In this brief dialogue, Speaker A asks how to keep daily planning and coordination meetings, especially frequent Zoom sessions, engaging and fun. Speaker…

4 Sept 2024 · 0 min

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In this brief dialogue, Speaker A asks how to keep daily planning and coordination meetings, especially frequent Zoom sessions, engaging and fun. Speaker B explains that fostering autonomy and encouraging team members to voice their opinions are key, but also highlights the use of lighthearted, goofy elements during planning. Specifically, they describe playing a distinct sound effect—such as the iconic Taco Bell “bong”— each time a task is completed, turning a routine update into a humorous moment that lifts morale and keeps participants attentive.

How do you keep that daily planning and coordination? You mentioned a lot of Zoom meetings, which I know for a lot of people can become tiresome. Like, how do you keep that fun?
Part of it is just making sure that people feel autonomous and able to express their opinion, just very involved. But I also try to add goofy bits during planning. Lately, every time we complete something, I play a different sound effect. So I think one time it was the Taco Bell bong for everything that we finished, and that was really fun. I think people will get a good laugh out of that.