Our meetings

I had to suspend my normal Monday am staff meeting today until Tuesday. Ordinarily that would drive me bonkers. Gagan called in sick Sunday afternoon. There is not much sense in doing the staff meeting with-out him when we can just as easily put it off a day. Well tomorrow we will not only have our staff meeting but also have a two hour training event. How does a small business afford all these meetings? Staff meeting is only about 20min. The two hour meetings happen once every two weeks. We know how much this cost us on a yearly basis and we have budgeted for it. The two hour meetings are based 100% on improving ourselves. The 20min. meetings are based primarily on immediate task completion and teamwork. The times of the meetings are some what flexible and we fit them in between other priorities. We have made the chief objective of the company for 08 to be at the very least holding all the meetings. For each meeting there needs to be a leader some one who prepares an agenda for the meeting. That person receives a substantial bonus from the company. It remains the number one reward for leadership at kidder blaisdell. The next bonus could possibly be for adding content to this blog. Tomorrow's training event will be on shop drawing organization and install game planning. Installs shouldn't be throwing everything into the truck and hoping that it's all there when you take it out and start assembling. I think it should a carefully executed plan with check off lists and ways of measuring how we do.