Are your staff meetings a forum for sharing innovative ideas and exchanging observations about working practices in a constructive way? Or do they degenerate into a 'staff moan?'
A good meeting can boost staff morale, with people going away feeling positive about their work, while a bad meeting can damage relations, with people feeling resentful at having their time wasted.
Managing an effective meeting divides into three parts: preparation in setting the time, venue and agenda; chairing the meeting; and then follow-up procedures of issuing the minutes and checking that decisions are implemented.
Jacintha Wake, proprietor of the Bolland Hall Day Nursery in Morpeth, says, 'We have two different types of meeting. We have a small, five-minute meeting at the end of the day when we look back and see if there have been any problems. We also meet before work for 15 minutes to go through what is happening that day. People are fresh and so come up with ideas.
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