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June 10, 2004
Communication
- Remember that team meetings are only for information everybody needs to know. Particularly beware the “forking submeeting”. It happens like this…you’re working round your team leaders, and suddenly an issue comes up and you ask them more about it. Suddenly you’re having a meeting with just that team while everyone else hangs around being bored. Don’t do it.
- Meetings with your individual staff members are for them, not another chance for you to gab on for an hour. Ask them lots of questions about how things are going, approaches they’re using, problems they need your help with. And listen to the answers - you will learn a lot.
- Look up SMART objectives on google. And make sure you actually know what you’re going to ask them to do before you have the meeting - remember the definition of management?
- And try not to go to, and definitely don’t set up, a meeting with no agenda. It’s just doomed to waffle.
Posted by Tom Dolan at June 10, 2004 04:28 PM
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