Weekly letters for my team

I’ve started writing a letter to my team every week. Example outline:

• Top of mind
  • A couple paragraphs about whatever’s on my mind that week
• Project stuff
  • Current priority
  • Related OKR
  • Status
  • Timelines/dates to be aware of
• People stuff
  • Upcoming PTO
  • Shout outs
  • People management stuff (example: “We’ll be starting BICEPS check-ins next week!”)
• Company stuff
  • Recent org updates
  • Upcoming notable events
  • Hot new links
• Random stuff
  • Links to interesting Slack threads
  • Questions to ponder
  • Whatever whatever!

People seem to like it as long as I keep it short. It’s great for all of the reasons that writing in general is great.