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I had organised a day off recently where all my family were visiting me from interstate. Despite this I had agreed to dial in to one conference call as the audi

by kyllo 12y ago

I had organised a day off recently where all my family were visiting me from interstate. Despite this I had agreed to dial in to one conference call as the audience attending was ‘important’. Well it seems Important but disrespectful, as the audience never even turned up, yet I was still made to ‘dry-run’ the whole meeting from start to finish for an hour and a half as if there was full attendance and interest in what I was saying. So, as the food I had prepared for my family went cold, there I was stuck on the phone role-playing a fake menial meeting to satisfy managements ego. Oh god. I would have hung up. The concept of a "dry run" for a meeting is insanely offensive and counterproductive. If a meeting needs to be scripted and rehearsed, it does not need to happen.

c0ur7n3y 12y ago
The scripting and rehearsing seems to happen when employees pick up on the signals, from the decisions that management makes around them, that appearance and self-marketing influence promotions more than performance. It's not a on/off thing - it's a continuum from fact-based decision making to perception-based decision making. The difference is how good are the managers at seeing what's really going on and how much they care about it.
genericresponse 12y ago
I read it with a few grains of salt. I've had dry runs for meetings where I was presenting. It's pretty useful to walk through your presentation with your boss when your 3-4 level higher boss is there. I've also requested subordinates dry run when they have poor communication skills and need coaching to perform up to standard. It's not something you do with everyone there or with a meeting that just works off an agenda.
Animats 12y ago
If your company is doing dry runs for routine in-house meetings, the management is broken.
cbsmith 12y ago
There are meetings, and there are presentations. The latter often benefits from scripting & rehearsing, particularly if there is a large audience. What's sad is when a meeting is actually just an elaborate ruse of a presentation.

by kyllo 12y ago

c0ur7n3y 12y ago

The scripting and rehearsing seems to happen when employees pick up on the signals, from the decisions that management makes around them, that appearance and self-marketing influence promotions more than performance. It's not a on/off thing - it's a continuum from fact-based decision making to perception-based decision making. The difference is how good are the managers at seeing what's really going on and how much they care about it.

genericresponse 12y ago

I read it with a few grains of salt. I've had dry runs for meetings where I was presenting. It's pretty useful to walk through your presentation with your boss when your 3-4 level higher boss is there. I've also requested subordinates dry run when they have poor communication skills and need coaching to perform up to standard. It's not something you do with everyone there or with a meeting that just works off an agenda.

Animats 12y ago

If your company is doing dry runs for routine in-house meetings, the management is broken.

cbsmith 12y ago

There are meetings, and there are presentations. The latter often benefits from scripting & rehearsing, particularly if there is a large audience. What's sad is when a meeting is actually just an elaborate ruse of a presentation.