A standard operating procedure (SOP) is a document that outlines how certain tasks or processes should be carried out within a company. Although SOPs can be used for a variety of purposes, the most effective ones share certain characteristics. Here, we have outlined these characteristics to help your team customize this SOP to meet the needs of various departments.

The Level 10 meeting is a weekly executive meeting that lasts 90 minutes and follows the same agenda each week. At the end of each meeting, participants quickly rate the meeting on a scale of 1 to 10. This template can help you stay on top of company goals and solve high-priority problems. Use it to run effective meetings that keep your team focused and moving forward.

Camilla Alvarez is a busy entrepreneur who has successfully balanced the demands of running a startup with maintaining a healthy personal life. Our video "The Search" features a look at Camilla's workspace and how she uses Notion to manage both her personal habits and her business. Currently, Camilla is focused on achieving her daily fitness goals and hiring a Head of Engineering, but her dashboards can be adapted to fit any changing priorities. You can duplicate her entire workspace, including her workout tracker and engineering interview guidelines, and customize it to suit your own needs.

Hex is a collaborative data platform that facilitates exploration, analysis, and sharing of information. It offers an easy way to build and share apps that can be used by anyone, and it now integrates fully with Notion. This template, which Hex uses to help new employees understand company equity, includes an interactive Hex app that models compensation at a fictional startup called SpiceConnect. By using this template, you can support your new hires and create a knowledge-sharing environment within your organization.

Creating a help center for your company can be a daunting task, and many software solutions for this purpose are overly complex and difficult to learn. Workwell simplifies the process by using Notion for their help center. This makes it easy for anyone on their team to edit and update the help center as needed. Additionally, they were able to quickly and easily publish their help center as a public-facing website with just a single click, and link to it from their website's footer. This eliminates the need to build a new web page from scratch for this purpose. With Notion, creating a help center can be as simple and straightforward as creating any other document, so everyone on your team can contribute to keeping it up to date.

A shared reading list is a great way for your company to learn together. Many teams simply post links to interesting articles, podcasts, or videos in Slack, but these quickly get buried by other messages and few people actually follow up on them. This template allows you to create a central list of interesting readings where everyone on your team can contribute and engage with the material whenever they have a chance. This way, you can keep track of your team's learning progress and make sure everyone has access to valuable resources.

A deal room is a private space where you can manage and organize your pitch decks, leads and deals, and store proposals and contracts. This template can help you keep track of all your sales prospects in one place, so you can focus on the deals that are most important to you.

Traditionally, marketing teams use separate tools for planning and writing content. However, with Notion, all of this can be done in one database. By using a calendar view, you can see your monthly publishing schedule and easily rearrange content to avoid traffic jams. This way, everyone in your company will know that there is only one place to look for any editorial project.

The "template" mentioned in the text is a tool that helps individuals keep track of their investor contacts and communication history. It allows users to store various types of data, such as average check size, emails, and warm contacts, in a single database. The template also provides the ability to view contacts by status, add notes and links to investor websites, and prepare for pitches. Using this template can help prevent common mistakes such as accidentally emailing an investor or showing up to a meeting unprepared. It can be thought of as a digital version of a planner or organizer for managing investor relationships.

XYZ is a travel companion for navigating the streets and waters of Mumbai, India. This template is used to update users on new features and bug fixes. Streamline communication with users and build an archive of product releases by eliminating the CMS.