MyZenTeam app for Slack

Enhance your team's relationships, empathy, and culture with MyZenTeam, now available in the Slack app store. Our simple and intuitive app lets you quickly set up automated Slack channels to bring co-workers closer together and get to know each other on a deeper level. Start using it today and experience the benefits for your team.

Slack channels you can automate with the app:

• Question a day with random questions spark surprising conversations.

• Daily stand-up meeting.

• Kudos channel to build a habit of showing gratitute.

• Moment of the week to share your favorite photo with a team.

• Birthday reminders.

• Work anniversaries reminders.

Let's explore some of the use cases.

Never forget an important date!

You no longer need someone to remind your team about colleagues' birthdays. Let the bot do the job!

It will automatically notify everyone when it's a team member's birthday or work anniversary, making it easy to recognize and celebrate special days. 

How can you use this feature to become a better manager?

When you see the automatic reminder, take time to write a wish to your team members.

Manager recognition goes a long way. A recent study found that employees who reported their managers were great at recognizing them were more than 40% more engaged than those with managers who were not (find the study here).

Automatic water cooler conversations

Remember conversations about breakfast, favorite movies, and your funniest childhood memory that you would have while drinking coffee with colleagues?  It was a fun way to connect and cool distractions in the office.

There were some issues with it. Management was rarely in the conversations, and you might never meet colleagues from different floors and always talked with the same group of people.

When the world went to a remote setting, I heard lots of stories about how managers wanted to bring the same concept online. They would do an online meeting where people would share their favorite songs.What’s the point of making the meeting about it? I would ask people to write links to their favorite songs and would create a playlist for the team.

We are introducing a bot that helps to spark interesting conversations online and asynchronously. We have put together an extensive gallery of questions that will be posted once a day to your selected channel.

Every day you will get a different question, like: 

1. What does this emoji mean to you? (you might be surprised)

2. How far do you live from the place where you grew up?

3. What time do you normally eat your "breakfast"? And what is it? 

4. What’s your go-to karaoke song? 

5. What’s the view like outside your window at the moment? Share a photo. 

It’s an easy way to meet everyone on the team, see how similar and different we are, and set up the foundation for successful work together. It’s much easier to contact someone you know a bit about, right?

All these conversations can be done on your own timeline, so it doesn't matter if your team is distributed or doesn't have much time for small talk. They can read answers and reply anytime they want.

How can you use the feature to become a better manager? 

It would be great if you reply to the questions once in a while, but it’s even more important to notice what questions ignite discussions and what people have in common.

You can use this information to organize online/offline team events or create Slack channels based on common interests. For example, if a big part of your team has a go-to karaoke song, you can incorporate that in your next team event.

Alternative to daily stand-up meetings

What's next? Soon, we will launch more bots for our Slack channel, such as daily stand-up meetings. You will be able to set up the frequency and time when your team will get a reminder to share what they have done, what they plan to do, and if they need any help.

To get started, sign up to MyZenTeam, head to Integrations section and connect your Slack workspace.