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/> ~
