We do ours on Monday so we can start out behind ;-) John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families Painfully sent to you from my Blackberry
----- Original Message ----- From: Chinnery, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> Sent: Tue Nov 11 15:18:44 2008 Subject: RE: IT Departmental Meetings 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 >> >> >> >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. 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