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by tonystubblebine
6564 days ago
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Since people are already advising you to ditch the meetings, I'll just answer with a direct tip. Try sending out an email detailing the meeting's goals, agenda, and any preparation you expect from the participants. This is sometimes called GAP and I had a coworker who was a bit of a task master who'd come from a company with the policy that you didn't have to go to any meeting that didn't provide this. I like the sentiment, at least, that meetings require preparation. So for a weekly meeting you might send:
Goal: To assign work responsibilities for the week
Agenda:
* Keeping our promise to deliver X to customer Y
* Assigning bug #123
* etc.
Preparation: Could everyone come prepared with the state of their work? In my experience, the preparation part is the part most likely to fail. Either the meeting planner isn't the type of personality to enforce it or the meetings aren't important enough for the participants to actually do the prep. In either case, you can drop it as just having a clear goal and agenda will make any meeting better. Also, forcing yourself to be clear about the goals and the agenda will help you see ways that you could eliminate parts of your meetings. |
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