Earlier in my career, I wish I knew there could be a strategy to the flow of our meetings. In a semi-recent Elevate Construction podcast, Organize Your Meetings, Jason Schroeder talked about the flow of information through the series of project meetings. As we integrate quality tasks within our daily work, we could get a huge benefit by:
- Listing out all the required meetings for the project.
- Listing the agendas of each meeting next to one another.
- Analyzing how the quality tasks fit in to each meeting.
- Thinking about what meetings can be eliminated or shortened?
Sometimes there’s a tendency to remove quality items from agendas to give them their own meeting. Yes, dedicated quality meetings are needed when critical elements of the job require greater attention to detail. However, we can’t talk about quality without schedule, safety, and everything else. It actually hinders our productivity when we break quality out separately.
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