+1
We tried them for a while, thinking they'd be more laid back and
enjoyable. I don't think any of us retained much from them.
And if it were me, you wouldn't give me anything to think about over
the weekend. You'd actually be giving me 2 days to forget what you
tried showing me. I'd much rather see something on Tuesday, and start
working with it on Wednesday.
On Nov 11, 2008, at 3:18 PM, Chinnery, Paul wrote:
Wouldn't you rather have them thinking about their families on the
weekend?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a slacker (as my performance reviews would
show or as the IT director said during a staff meeting once , "I
wish I
could clone you."). For us here, we work pretty hard during the week
working on projects, putting out fires, etc. like the posters on this
list. For me, Fridays are a chance to catch up on paperwork, talk to
vendors and do research. I think you'll find that most mgmt.
consultants recommend against Friday meetings.
Paul Chinnery
Network Administrator
Memorial Medical Center
231-845-2319
-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:41 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IT Departmental Meetings
Yup. Gives them something to think about over the weekend.
Actually, it's a great way to cap the week. The tone is very light in
our group, and there's always lots of joking, so this will keep them a
bit focused.
Kurt
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Chinnery, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Instructions and demos on a Friday afternoon?
Paul Chinnery
Network Administrator
Memorial Medical Center
231-845-2319
-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:29 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IT Departmental Meetings
IT folks are notorious for not liking meetings.
Our department is nine members - we've split the staff into the
business systems team and the infrastructure team. We have a
Wednesday
departmental meeting, which the IT Director has managed to pare down
to approximately 1/2 hour. That meeting covers news of the business
as
a whole, plus anything that is going on in the department that might
impact others. No set agenda.
I have also instituted, as the newly christened Supervisor for the IF
team (promoted in October, yea for me), a regular Friday afternoon
meeting (13:00) for me and my three charges. It is slated to last a
full hour, but is often over before that. However, I plan on
introducing instruction and demos at this meeting - I'll be requiring
each member to come up with a topic, in rotation. I figure it'll be
good for them, and I might learn something too.
Kurt
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Chyka, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Right now we have the most boring meetings for our IT Dept. We have
weekly meetings with 15 members of our staff in them from the CIO to
lower level techs and everyone in between. We fill out an agenda
with
what we are working on etc. The meeting lasts forever and the DBAs
don't want to hear what the Network guys are doing and the techs
don't
want to hear what the systems guys are doing etc. etc. just awful
meetings and nothing gets accomplished. We were told since we don't
like the meetings and they are highly ineffective to come up with a
better way to hold them. I was thinking about every 2 weeks have
the
CIO meet with the management in each division together so we still
know what is going on with the "team". Every week is way too often
and doesn't give enough time to report on completed projects etc.
I was wondering how dept. meetings are held at your places of
employment for the IT dept.
Thanks..BC
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