Tag: meetings

Management Articles

• How to Have More Productive Meetings
  "In their studies Titus and Stasser found that a significant amount of time in meetings was spent listening to people telling each other what everyone else already knew. Worryingly, their studies went on to find that the individuals in meetings who actually possessed genuinely new information, that only they knew about, often failed to alert the rest of the group to this new information. ... Perhaps one of the simplest and most effective things is for the meeting sponsor to ask those attending to submit information before the meeting. ... Recognize the value of the humble checklist."

• It's Not Just Standing Up: Patterns for Daily Standup Meetings by Jason Yip
  "It is too easy to confuse effort with work. The stand-up should encourage a focus on moving work through the system in order to achieve our objectives, not encourage pointless activity. ... Post raised obstacles to an Improvement Board. This is a publicly visible whiteboard or chart that identifies raised obstacles and tracks the progress of their resolution. An Improvement Board can be updated outside of stand-ups and serves as a more immediate and perhaps less confronting way to initially raise obstacles."

Management Web Sites and Resources

• in2in by Bill Bellows
  Offer an annual conference along with ongoing learning opportunities focused on the management ideas of Deming and Ackoff. Recommended