[GirlySports]

Back to meetings...

How many of you have weekly or bi-weekly in-person status updates? (show of hands!) If you do, that manager/lead is not tuned in. Meetings should only be to strategize or do work.

As an employee:
1) Why should I have to update my work in front of the entire team?
2) Why waste an hour just listening to people mostly go off topic
3) You often have different levels of employees in the same room
4) What's the manager doing the other 39 hours of the week that he need a status update every week?

We have technology now. Projects should be allocated to small teams or individuals to perform and update into a project management tool, like MS Project or Sharepoint or whatever. Delegate a team lead for that who can call his own meetings and update the status in the system. Manager tracks projects and day to day work, is on top of everything all the time. Talk to project leads if he feels things are off track.

There are a lot of managers who call a lot of meetings, or want, need consensus to make every decision to avoid responsibility. Those managers are useless.