Hello everyone and welcome back to another video it is
Francesco here. Welcome to Keep Productive YouTube channel if you're brand new, but if your regular welcome back, so guys in today's view
I'm going to be taking out some time to interview one of the monday.com team
Now Joel is one of their well, he's almost like their brand ambassador sandstone. He's a public face of the company
You've probably seen them in a couple of the Monday at home paths that have been floating around YouTube now
Maybe a few weeks ago now. I didn't him a few questions and
because we can actually clash our time zones and
Because we're both fairly busy people
He is sent over the questions and I've mashed them all up which is brilliant
so John will be speaking about a few of the things that I had queries on about the history of monday.com or how many
The comment is useful for teams and many of the other aspects of that and this is something I've put together
Actually weirdly a couple of weeks ago
And then Monday will come breached out of the sponsor like two weeks ago. So it clashed out really really well without being coincidental
So as you know, this week's videos have been sponsored by monday.com, monday.com is a project management resource
which has a host of functionality from timeline all the way to custom boards and views as well as a host of team
communication functions. Now I've done a full review of monday.com. So if you want to go in description below
read the full review you can and
It'll give you everything you need as well as all of the timestamps to skip ahead to
Certain elements of features that you and your team would like to see I will be passing over to Joel today a huge
Thank you for him before recording all of this and putting all together. It's a very very kind of him
These are some of my burning questions for the monday.com team
So hopefully you find it as much use as possible, especially from the progressive
productivity project management software company
Any of you guys? Thank you so much for stopping by today. Enjoy the future here with Joel
Thank you Joe again, and I'll see you guys very very soon
question number one
What is Monday dot-coms history and backstory? Good question, okay
So Roy, who is the CEO and founder of Monday comm he used to work for another company and he saw that company
undergo crazy growth like he
witnessed
Them growing from a hundred employees to a thousand employees within the span of a few years and he saw the need for this
Tool to help them with their communication
Syncing meetings management as they were as they were scaling and growing at such a rapid pace. So he developed Monday
With with the vision of it being a tools to help startup scale
Then we launched to the general public around five years ago
and
we started getting a lot of traction and a lot of people using our tool and talking about us in the internet and we realized
Really really quickly that actually 70% of the people using us will not startups. They were not tech-savvy people
They were real world people people who worked in brick-and-mortar companies people who had mid-level managers in a fortune 500 company
someone who was
One of the first guys I remember talking to he was franchising a burger joint across Canada
And that was a really interesting revelation that happened really early on so the product was initially designed to help startups
Scale and then very quickly was adopted by a market that we did not expect
question
number two
Why is money calm so effective with teams?
So in order for a tool to be a good tool or product a bigger product, you actually have to use it
so there's this concept of
Technology working for you and not the other way around if you have a software that you need to work really hard at to make
It work and to get it to be useful
so that's not a good technology because you're working for the tool rather than the tool working for you or
You working for is technology rather than technology making your life easier so when you ask
Wise man, I don't come good for teams of so effective for teams
It's because teams actually use it with engineer the product from day one
for it to be not only a great place to be in or a great tool to use but also for it to be
for to have value for the all team members of the actual people using it and not just be this tool that it's a
Reporting tool for managers. We wanted to create a place where
The or a software that actually helps teams collaborate and communicate and work better together and manage whatever
Processes or projects or tasks? They're trying to manage
And we've actually done a marketing like that from day one
We've always marketed ourselves as a b2c and not as b2b
We talk in our marketing messaging we talk to the direct pain of the end-user not to some theoretical will make your business
43% more productive
We want to solve the problems that you're having as a team later or you are having as managing projects
So we put that in our messaging in our marketing
We've we've tried to engineer our product from day one to be
Sleek and sexy and fun to use and pretty and beautiful and just work. Well drag-and-drop intuitive
It's supposed to work like an iPhone. It's supposed to feel like Instagram and snapchat and and be as helpful as whatsapp. And
and you know that feeling when you get them like a new car for the first time and you've you've got the the
Smell and all of your sensation is all of your sensations is just blown away by like all the gadgets and the feel of everything
Software should feel like that you should be exciting and it should be a great place to be and an excellent
feel of a product and also
Of course, it should be extremely valuable for the people actually using it and not just this theoretical reporting tool
so that's how I think my Y mundo to come is very very valuable for the teams if you're talking more on a
Functionality or feature level I would say because we incorporate what we whoa our main
Functionalities is the board view, which is this grid view and people thinking grids
And helps you manage processes, it helps you manage projects and it gives you this high-level overview of understanding in a glance
Really really easily where everything is at it's color-coded
So you can create your own colors
So if you see something that's red everyone on your team can see where something stuck it'll people to come up with creative
Solutions it allows managers to understand where the big picture is allows you
know a technical person on the team to understand where their works fitting into the larger picture and where they can come with ideas and
That that concept of having this this one high-level view really really helps teams collaborate together
How do I use Monday comm for my team? And how does the Monday comm team use the service software?
Internally, okay
So the first thing you should know is we're a hundred and thirty people in the company
in three continents with two officers and remote employees and
Everybody uses Monday. We use it for everything
What's crazy when I tell people is that we have no internal email essentially
We've got rid of well not got rid of we've never had in terms of email because we use Monday for everything
so we use it for anything from
organizing
company hackathons to
Events where we go out to a bar, whatever
You can think of we use Monday to manage it. Of course, we use to manage all about their products building processes
We use it to manage our marketing, especially
Everything connected to inter department news. So when you have for example marketing campaign that needs to go out you need
People to come up with creative you need developers to implement it somewhere and you need marketers to go push it on Facebook
So that's three different teams that need to work with each other all of that communication all that collaboration all happens in one place
where everyone can see it so I run a
Small video team here. We have two main boards that we use
The first one is a high-level board where we show all of them make all of the videos were creating by quarter
So we see all of the videos that we're making
We see the time and the date that they were published how long it took to make
and and then I've got a column for all the links to YouTube and Facebook and we upload the
all the assets and we have all the scripts all in one place and everything's all there all the all the
Exports of the final versions of the videos everything's there
So everyone can come in and find the links and whenever they want and you can see when we did what?
When it helps us plan ahead as well
So we have a big backlog at the bottom where we put all of our ideas and then decide
every couple of weeks what's going into it into production the second board that we use the most is a
Is a team link lead heart ball?
But we put all of our tasks there that we need to do as a team
And put see who's in charge of what so for example
if we need to call a client and set up a
Filming date with him or her or we need to rent gear for a specific shoot
Or we need to get subtitles done on the fringe video. We just made stuff like that. Yeah, we have all the tasks there
We see we put everyone who's in charge of Sur every task has an owner so you can filter according to that
so everyone comes in in the morning, they can see a view of what they need to do for the next two weeks and
and those tasks are
What make the the larger kind of?
Projects not what makes the projects happen, but what makes the projects not fall apart
It's just that
How does Monday see the future of this space the next four to five years of productivity in the team space and the project management?
world
Teams are becoming
More flat by flat. I mean there's less hierarchy
so, how would
Work in the past is you'd have one person at the top who would decide on something and then hand out tasks to the next
Level of the hierarchy who had then dispersed
you know delegate tasks the lower level of the people actually doing the work and
The world is going away from that what's happening now is that we have smaller teams who are more agile and more empowered to do
To work in the best way that they think possible
So instead of instead of someone at the top deciding what to happen and giving our tasks what's gonna happen and giving out tasks?
What's happening now is that you're deciding together on?
Strategy and the goals are being set and then you're allowing the team or teams to carry to
Achieve those goals or kpi's in the best way that they see possible. So it's it's allowing them to have a lot more
creativity and freedom autonomy
All of these buzzwords which are actually real things
so
um along with that comes the need for trend the need for transparency transparency allows this to happen because it gives you you know
Accountability it allows people to take on that responsibility
and
Show that show what they're doing to other people allows them to understand where you know understand the higher-level goals of the company
and that's that's why I think the world is definitely going to that the world is going away from
this hierarchy of someone handing delegating tasks to people and more towards setting goals and allowing a team a small team to be
Creative in the way that they achieve
Those KPIs and goals. That's that's how we do it here and I've seen a lot of companies moving that direction. I
Think another big aspect of this is not just how you're working
But what you're actually using to help you do that work or help you collaborate and work together
And I think there are two big trends in
in this is so meaning the software's and the tools that you're using and one of the big trends of course is the fact that
These tools are now easy to use and fun and design beautifully
but the second big thing is these these tools were not available before because either they were
Industry specific and then cost huge amounts of money or you know
Big company would try to develop an internal type of tool and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on it
But now nowadays you can use a tool like Al's build an entire kind of front-end UI
for your company, you know, this is the core of your business everyone has access to it and
for a very low price relatively and
I think this is kind of
democratizing or spreading out the power
That used to only be for a few which was to either build their own software or buy an incredibly expensive
Clunky tool and now just any team with the credit card who wants to swipe it and for $50 a month can can have this
incredible
Interface and and place for everyone to work online together. I think that's a big part of where the world is going