We have an IT staff of about 6, plus our manager, and there is someone from another department that joins our meetings as well. So the meetings we have are fairly small. We meet once a week, our manager updates on stuff that involves everyone. And then he goes around the table and asks each person if they have anything. Sometimes it's just that is important to everyone, other times it only involves a couple of people at the table.
We used to have two meetings. One meeting was "group" related with the manager. For example, the "networking" team would meet with him on Monday's, and then the user support team would meet with him on Tuesdays. But the User Support guys complained that they didn't get to hear about what we were doing enough, so we ended up combining the meetings. Personally I liked meeting in separate groups and then bringing only the information to the table that effected the other groups during our departmental staff meeting. I spend less time listening to people talk about stuff that doesn't effect me, or asking questions that have already been answered 5 times. But, such is life.... On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:29 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/> ~
