Comments on: Staff Meetings

By: We Have Always Done It That Way » Tip of the Iceberg

We Have Always Done It That Way » Tip of the Iceberg — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:24:55 +0000

[...] One thing that I know we will be doing with this book is expanding on it. Each of the posts that became the book is like the tip of the iceberg. I know I have already done some expanding. For example, in the book I wrote a piece about doing staff meetings differently. Since then, I took that post and expanded it into an article that was posted onto the Association Forum’s CEOnly section of their web site. The article is a bit longer and includes some quotes from the Executive Director of a membership organization who had made changes to the way she ran staff meetings. That Executive Director and I are now collaborating on a presentation for the upcoming Great Ideas Conference, where we will build on the concept more. [...]

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:07:53 +0000

That’s a tough one. It certainly is possible that as an experiment, it simply shows you that wikis are not a good way to share information in your specific team (I have no idea if this is true, I am just reinforcing my point that you need to experiment). If people forget to use the online space, then I assume they show up at staff meetings and give the report on what they’re doing. If people are okay with that, then fine. There has to be enough “pain” in the way you’re doing it to get people to do it a new way. Whoever is running the meeting needs to reinforce its importance, model using the tool, and maybe even start putting information on it that people can ONLY get on that tool. That might start creating new habits.

By: Sue Pelletier

Sue Pelletier — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:58:14 +0000

I like the idea of having a staff blog, and we tried that as well to deal with the more mundane issues (actually, it was more of a wiki). But after some initial use, people forgot to go there, and it fell into disuse. I’m not sure how to get over this hump”â€any suggestions?