meetings

[Robert Anderson]

Every week we have a staff meeting where people outline what they are doing.
The department meetings produce action items, which we have really moved
forward on implementing well lately...

However, we rarely produce any action items from the general staff meetings.
Is there a value for this sort of general staff meeting?

[John A. Weeks III]

Post by Robert Anderson
Every week we have a staff meeting where people outline what they are doing.
The department meetings produce action items, which we have really moved
forward on implementing well lately...
However, we rarely produce any action items from the general staff meetings.
Is there a value for this sort of general staff meeting?

The benefit of a general staff meeting is for management to
advertise all of their on-going projects and changes. It
helps get everyone on the same page. It is also a chance
to educate folks about what is going on in other parts of
the company that they may not interact with routinely. It
is especially helpful for home-office staff of a company
that has remote plants or remote sales force--the folks at
the home office might have no clue what is going on out in
the field on the front lines.

-john-

[___cliff rayman___]

Post by Robert Anderson
However, we rarely produce any action items from the general staff meetings.
Is there a value for this sort of general staff meeting?

Since the departments know they have to report, they produce actions to
report on. It also informs upper management about what is going on in
the various departments within the company.

If you develope good quality control programs (product, service or
management), they look like they lose their value after they become
successful, because the problems they were originally designed to fix,
no longer occur. If you get rid of the meetings, the original problems
may once again manifest themselves. That has been my experience.

The best thing to do is make sure the meetings move along quickly and
crisply.

[ivan sutton]

These general meetings are vital. Staff need to hear from the leader, and
need to be reassured that they and the company are still on track. In some
cases, when staff meetings are even once a month, you find an increase in
staff dissatisfaction, worry, speculations concerning leadership etc. These
meeting have a micro impact without micro managing.

Ivan

Post by Robert Anderson
Every week we have a staff meeting where people outline what they are doing.
The department meetings produce action items, which we have really moved
forward on implementing well lately...
However, we rarely produce any action items from the general staff meetings.
Is there a value for this sort of general staff meeting?
--
Robert Anderson