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/> ~
