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If it's a recurring meeting, you can attach a google doc or whatever to it in calendar with meeting notes/agenda. People can add to the agenda whenever, and if
by wombat-man 3y ago
If it's a recurring meeting, you can attach a google doc or whatever to it in calendar with meeting notes/agenda. People can add to the agenda whenever, and if there's nothing on it the meeting can get cancelled.
- majormajor 3y agoI've always found this to be one of those "manager schedule/style" vs "engineer schedule/style" things. Hard blockers get added, but otherwise I've found ICs to be very hesitant about adding to the agenda. Especially when it's just "I want to know what's going on in the other teams/projects" because nobody wants to admit ignorance.
- bertil 3y agoThat tooling is helpful, but because of asymmetric dynamics, many individual contributors who have things on their minds don’t put things on that agenda. You have to work to make that agenda not “manager domain.” As a manager, I often reach out on the “opposite” day (Monday if the meeting is on a Thursday) and ask if there are things they want to talk about that are not already there. I also put things weeks ahead to give some sense of structure. Same for the team’s meeting agenda: people, especially senior team members, are more keen to edit that one, though. Often, I try to copy elements that they add to our 1:1 to discuss their concern ahead of time. When another team member raises a concern about another member, I ask them to tell them to add it to the agenda. That hasn’t worked, ever, but it highlights the role of that agenda as an asymetric way to handle the relations.