Weekly meetings

There is a trend in business books at the moment to talk about the negatives of meetings.

While I’m no fan of days which are meeting after meeting after meeting, I think for small businesses with teams of 2-5 people a weekly meeting can be an amazing thing.

The key is not to use the meeting as merely a way to pass down information but to use it as an opportunity to connect. Try to make it less about you and more about them.

Here are some guidelines:

• Keep it short and purposeful
• Spotlight a team member and let them share something they’ve learned
• Check-in with how everyone on the team is doing work wise and mental health wise
• Don’t share things that can just be shared in an email
• Come prepared with something you can work on as a team