The Most Important Question That Will Make Your Meetings Productive

Source: Inc Magazine

• With one-on-one meeting, a supervisor should try to keep the flow of thoughts coming by prompting the subordinate with queries until both feel satisfied that they have gotten to the bottom of a problem. To be effective, both the supervisor and the subordinate should be taking notes in the meeting. One-on-one should be scheduled on a rolling basis.
• Staff meetings also create opportunities for the supervisor to learn from the exchange and confrontation that often develops. The role of the supervisor in the staff meeting is a leader, an observer, an expediter, a questioner and a decision maker but not a lecturer.
• If the staff meeting degenerates into a conversation between two people working on a problem affecting only them, the supervisor should break it off and move on to something else that will include more of the staff, while suggesting the two continue their exchange later. Read More...