MeetingProtocol
Intro
- Meetings are a great place to create the culture of a company.
- AboutUs is a fun, vibrant & engaged place to work–let's carry this culture through to the meetings.
- MarkDilley & Julia a really excited to work on a proposal for making meetings run more smoothly. Please join us!
Brainstorm
The Past
- What has worked with our meetings, i.e. what do you like. What have we struggled with as an organization in terms of meetings?
- What are some specific things about meetings at AboutUs that don't work?
The Future
- What do we as an organization want meetings to look like in the future? What are some qualities that we want?
- Do you have any suggestions for meetings and decision making that have really worked?
- How strict should we be about times?
- One large issue meeting a day?
- Consensus?
- Meeting Times: Having planning meetings on Friday afternoon might not be the most productive time?
- What role can consensus polling take?
- The law of two feet.
- Respect: Talking over people, space to let everyone speak up, how can we demonstrate a respectful work environment at our meetings?
- Follow through: notes are put up, project page is reoriented, Leave the meeting with clear actions delegated. Next meeting is set & facilitator chosen.
- Feedback loop: At the end of a meeting? Email? Conversation?
The Action Move
- MarkDilley & Julia are interested in proposing a system to try? Would anyone like to join us?
I think many of your ideas are great; change in some form is overdue and will arguably help with productivity. I am in. yeah. Kasey