Want to make your organisation more productive? stop or severely reduce the number of meetings?
An early meeting at the beginning of a project, set the tone, the working style, next steps and then get going! probably all was set, decided in a separate document, proposal, procurement.
if you have meetings then bi-weekly, weekly is too often, people don’t have time, monthly is too long (to forget what one was doing).
If one sets homework or todos, these can be checked off online by the manager. one reason to have a meeting is to remind / shame the slackers that works, typically. Shame, guilt, broken promises are not bad to expose in a meeting (gently). a round the table “progress report” is not bad.
Small heads up if someone excuses the reason not to have worked “the dog ate my work” this is a good sign to keep an extra eye on them.
excuses, excuses.