Archive for August, 2009
Different Paths
I have the privilege to manage a multi-year, multi-million engagement that supports one of the offices within the Department of Health and Human Services. My team makes a number of things happen such as web design and development, IT support, database development, call center operations, plain language web writing, print design, social media marketing, [...]
Death by Meeting: My First Take
In an earlier post about running effective meetings, I stated that I read Patrick Lencioni’s book Death by Meeting and was going to give his ideas a try. So far, my team and I have experimented with the Daily Check-ins and the Weekly Tactical meetings. Here is my take: Daily Check-ins When I stated that [...]
Are You Kidding Me? More Meetings?!!!
Like most people, I dread the weekly status meeting. I sit there and ask myself “Why am I here?”, “What is the purpose of this meeting?”, and “What real work could I be doing instead of this meeting?”. And to make matters worse, I am the one who runs this meeting! If I’m feeling this [...]
