When you need to talk, but don’t want to interrupt. When you’re tempted to write a long email or chat thread. When you’re scheduling a meeting or call that doesn’t need to be.
Daily Standup
Volley that update and watch the others at 2X speed.
Brainstorming
Capture creativity when it happens, not when the clock says it should.
Sales
Why wait to “jump on a call” when you could start volleying right now.
Project Updates
Just volley it and get back to moving the project forward.
One on Ones
They could be so much more if they were on-demand and ongoing.
Mastermind Groups
Easily to have conversations with people outside of your company.
Coaching
The fidelity of IRL with the flexibility of text.
Board Meetings
Why are we waiting ‘til next month to talk?
Onboarding
Volley naturally promotes just-in-time learning.
Volley is wrong for you if:
You wish you had more meetings on your calendar.
You don’t get what this Zoom fatigue is all about.
You don’t mind listening to people talk at just 1X speed.
You love interruptions & distractions!
You live to write long emails.
You believe the future of work looks just like the past.
Show me more
Volley fills the space between Slack and Zoom
(and often replaces them)
Slack vs Volley
Took 78 seconds to write
Took 2 minutes to find & upload image
Provides 7% of context (93% of communication is nonverbal)
Took 11 seconds to say
Instantly flipped camera during volley to show issue
Can’t refer back (unless you record, but who does that?)
Took 7 minutes (5 volleys)
Interruption free
2 people realized this didn’t apply to them after 30 secs
Able to view at 2X
Automatically recorded and available for 7 days
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The case for Volley
If you’ve read this far, we’re guessing you probably like numbers.
Time spent in meetings has risen 10% a year since the year 2000
The number of meetings has increased by 13% since the COVID pandemic started with the number of attendees increasing by 13.5%
The average executive spends 72% of their day in meetings
71% of executives feel meetings aren’t a productive use of time.
65% of executives say meetings stop them from finishing individual work.
Once interrupted, it takes 23 minutes to get back on task with your previous level of focus.
Software developers spend only 41% of their day doing software development.
The average person can compose written business communication at about 19 WPM, yet can speak at 150 WPM, and can comprehend speech at 400 WPM.
Only 7% of communication is what is said (the actual words)–38% is how it’s said (tone of voice) and 55% is how you look while saying it (body language)
The average American worker receives 126 emails and 200 Slack messages a day.
Slack users spend approx 10 hours a week writing messages on Slack
Useless meetings cost American businesses $399 billion a year.
Meetings magically expand or contract the time they are given (Parkinson’s Law)
Across all languages and cultures, there is a universal gap of only 200 milliseconds between turns in a conversation. Waiting 600 milliseconds before responding in a conversation signals an awkward pause. Because of this, we build our response during our partner’s turn.
Any time we can wait at least 3 seconds (a really awkward pause) before taking our turn in a conversation, our responses dramatically improve.
It seems you’ve reached the depths of our desire to write site content.
The numbers didn’t do it? What about the Slack vs Zoom stuff? No? Need more convincing?
