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Increasing accountability

As a leader, you want to promote a transparent culture where everyone takes accountability for their work. Steady makes that easy since teams are "open" by default. Working in the open is a powerful tool for breaking down silos, building trust, and keeping multiple teams aligned and working in the same direction without constant meetings.

Open teams and user profiles

Since teams in Steady are open by default, you'll increase overall awareness and visibility across your organization by surfacing what each team and person is focused on and the progress they're making. Teams & People is a directory of profiles that are one-stop-shops for everything going on with that team/person.

Live Goals

Live Goals drive ownership and accountability. Each Live Goal has a single owner responsible for creating updates on their goals, which are shared with the broader team to keep everyone in the loop. Contributors can also provide updates, but there is always a single, directly responsible individual.

With Live Goal reminders sent automatically and surfaced on the Digest, they're impossible to forget about.

If goal updates stop, it's a signal for leaders to check in with its owner because it's a signal that progress has stalled out.

Automated summaries and insights with Echoes

Staying informed about a team's activities shouldn't be a hassle. Echoes simplify this by automatically bringing the most relevant updates directly to you.​

Instead of sifting through numerous check-ins and goal updates, Echoes highlight essential information—such as key decisions, project milestones, or insights pertinent to your work.​

Echoes takes time-consuming, energy-sapping context assembly off of your plate so you can focus on the work that matters.

Echoes pull in key insights from check-ins, goals, and team discussions, giving you a high-level view of progress without interrupting your team’s flow. They help answer:

  • What’s moving forward?
  • What needs attention?
  • Who might need support?
  • What has a team member been focused on in the past week?

With Echoes, you can stay connected to each team's work without adding meetings or micromanaging.

Using Echoes

To start using Echoes, select the waveform icon in the sidebar.

  1. Start an Echo by typing a question or prompt into the field, or by picking a question from the default set of templates. You can use simple questions like “Who’s out next week on the product team?” or use more advanced prompts like “summarize the major progress that the Design and Dev teams made last week, and include any related pull requests”.
  2. Once you submit your question, Echoes will generate a preview so you can make sure the output is what you want/expect. If it’s not, you can make changes, and the preview will update.
  3. Pick a weekly/bi-weekly/monthly cadence and the day and time you want answers delivered, and optionally edit the “short name” (which is displayed on answers).
  4. After you save your Echo, an initial answer will be delivered to your Digest. Future answers will be delivered to your Digest according to your schedule, and you’ll also get notified when that happens.
  5. All answers for an Echo are viewable in one place. Just click on the Echo in question from the list on the main Echoes view. This is also where you can edit, pause, or delete an Echo (via the ••• menu at the top of the page).

Insights and Activity

The Insights and Activity pages let you analyze your data for deeper insights into the impact teams and people are having. Insights gives you a way to see check-in trends over time, across teams, on individual teams, and at the user level.

Activity lets you drill down into specific types of integration and app activity.