How many meetings have we had where the meeting organizer glares at everyone and says "why are we all here", "I think we all know what this meeting is about", or some variation, while everyone in the room has no idea what he's talking about.
This is especially true when the meeting invite just said "Meeting", or even better, was called 45 minutes ago with the header of "Mandatory Meeting - Urgent".
My personal favourite is when the manager then puts a three day old client email on the projector for all to see, demands to know why no one in the team has given him estimates for a fix time, and then says "oh, you're not on the email chain... you haven't seen any of this, have you?"
It would make for interesting meeting minutes, if, you know, they ever bothered to take notes of the meeting.
I actually had one manager who didn't make meeting minutes, so a different team member recorded everything, wrote them up as meeting minutes, and put them in the project archive. The manager ordered him to stop because "it's making me [sic] look bad"...
How many meetings have we had where the meeting organizer glares at everyone and says "why are we all here", "I think we all know what this meeting is about", or some variation, while everyone in the room has no idea what he's talking about.
This is especially true when the meeting invite just said "Meeting", or even better, was called 45 minutes ago with the header of "Mandatory Meeting - Urgent".
My personal favourite is when the manager then puts a three day old client email on the projector for all to see, demands to know why no one in the team has given him estimates for a fix time, and then says "oh, you're not on the email chain... you haven't seen any of this, have you?"
It would make for interesting meeting minutes, if, you know, they ever bothered to take notes of the meeting.
I actually had one manager who didn't make meeting minutes, so a different team member recorded everything, wrote them up as meeting minutes, and put them in the project archive. The manager ordered him to stop because "it's making me [sic] look bad"...
Oh dear! Actually telling the employees why they're meeting!! The horror 😱