I'd rather have them cap the week with some instruction or a demo. They might or might not ponder it over the weekend - I hope they do - but it's certainly *not* assigned homework. And, I'd rather they fit the work on the demo or instruction into their weekly work, rather than do it over the weekend before a Monday presentation.
The Friday meeting is also used to plan time off, projects for the next week, etc. The meetings are prospective, on retrospective, and as such, I find it more useful to hold them on Friday, rather than trying to do them on Mondays, which are always busy. Kurt On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Chinnery, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> ~ 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/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
