Building administrators have always used small/large group meetings to convey new policies, processes, action plans or organizational changes. As usual, these meetings may be met with groans or with positive outlooks from the participants depending on how the leader manages the sessions. Quite often, it is not the content that causes faculty members to lose focus and drift off as it the lack of skills possessed by the speaker that will engage the listners and stimulate their interest.
Once in awhile, it helps to have a “refresher” guideline with examples to maintain staff interest /focus on a meeting topic and/or process. In a recent blog in Smart Brief on Leadership author Dan McCarthy lists 5 ways to make a meeting less painful and 5 ways to ruin a meeting.
It is worth a look, even for experienced administrators.
You may access the article at: http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com/2013/11/how-to-make-team-meetings-less-painful.html
