Time Management Through More Meetings
Apparently the Department of Boring Meetings thinks there is a better way to organize the workday — and they want to have some meetings to discuss it.
But don’t worry, there are doughnuts for the team with the best ideas.
Or muffins. We can totally do muffins…
From the memo:
So let’s plan to have a few ad hoc powwows next week to discuss the meeting situation, vis-a-vis the workplace. The prioritized goal of these meetings will be to draw up a comprehensive road map for what we should be aiming for while avoiding the stumbling blocks we’ve encountered in the past. The point here is to take a step back and reevaluate how we do things here, on a macro level.
Please bring a minimum of 15 topics to discuss, with a focus on “how to minimize wasted work.” Of course, more ideas are always welcome. We’ll be going through these point-by-point and selecting the top 20 to be discussed at next week’s Productivity Enhancement off-site sit-down.
Once we’ve highlighted a list of problems, we’re going to break up into smaller groups to tackle inter-group communication problems and idea bottlenecking, and then hopefully do some real blue-sky thinking. These groups will spend the majority of Thursday’s retreat developing proactive steps that they, as a group or as individuals, can implement post facto. These groups will be called “solution-innovators” (SI for short) and each SI will meet every other week to track overall progress and facilitate productivity improvements.
I’ll be floating between the two groups to gauge the temperature of the room.
The team that comes up with the best solutions at the end of each week will be rewarded with doughnuts. So by Wednesday at noon please e-mail me your top five doughnut preferences so we can have a good selection for the winners. Or, if you’d rather have muffins, we can do muffins. Totally up to you.
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