Meetings should be short and and precise. A general meeting where a team of 10 or less people updating what they are working on or have accomplished should not take more than 13 minutes tops. ideally 10 or less but I give 3 for the general good morning how is everyone doing kind of small talk
That meeting could be an email and is still not important unless I actually need to know about the rest of the team's progress on a specific process. If that's the case then we're probably collaborating on something and I'm already in contact with them independent of some dumb meeting, so the meeting is still just going to get in the way of me being productive most of the time.
Should be an email. The problem is you end up with people who also never send the update email. So if you have a team of people who do that great. I’ve worked on teams where everyone is great at their job, but they are all focused on their tasks and never update their tasks as completed leaving the manager unsure where our progress is on milestones causing problems for them when it comes to task planning and scheduling. So if I have to have a meeting, 1 10 minute meeting a week isn’t a bad trade off.
If something is actually important then someone will show up at my desk. It doesn't require a meeting, it just requires actual human interaction, something which everyone in the modern era seems to be allergic to.
Meetings should be short and and precise. A general meeting where a team of 10 or less people updating what they are working on or have accomplished should not take more than 13 minutes tops. ideally 10 or less but I give 3 for the general good morning how is everyone doing kind of small talk
That meeting could be an email and is still not important unless I actually need to know about the rest of the team's progress on a specific process. If that's the case then we're probably collaborating on something and I'm already in contact with them independent of some dumb meeting, so the meeting is still just going to get in the way of me being productive most of the time.
Should be an email. The problem is you end up with people who also never send the update email. So if you have a team of people who do that great. I’ve worked on teams where everyone is great at their job, but they are all focused on their tasks and never update their tasks as completed leaving the manager unsure where our progress is on milestones causing problems for them when it comes to task planning and scheduling. So if I have to have a meeting, 1 10 minute meeting a week isn’t a bad trade off.
If something is actually important then someone will show up at my desk. It doesn't require a meeting, it just requires actual human interaction, something which everyone in the modern era seems to be allergic to.