

Add your teammates and you’re ready for the next step. The Guests field autocompletes names as you type them with anyone in your Slack workspace. When it’s time to schedule your next meeting, just click the shortcut menu, select “Create event” and follow the four simple steps below. To get started, install your calendar app of choice to Slack and connect your account. The apps scan your teammates’ calendars for common availability and let you schedule a meeting right inside a channel or direct message (including any external partners you work with in Slack Connect). The Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar apps for Slack eliminate these pain points. It takes several minutes, and it’s a drag to do it every time you need to book a meeting. You know the drill: open your calendar app, search for your teammates’ calendars, overlay them all, then play whack-a-mole trying to find any shared open slots in the future. And unfortunately, the initial rush behind the idea begins to fizzle when it’s time to get that meeting scheduled. Nearly every project, from global cross-functional campaigns with plenty of lead time to quick A/B tests, officially begins the same way: a kickoff meeting.
