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Do Your Team a Favor: Recap Your Meeting
One of the most frustrating work experiences is when you meet about a project, and later realize that everyone left the meeting with a completely different idea of what was decided.
This can happen in a number of different types of meetings, but I find there can be three times when this miscommunication occurs the most:
- Brainstorming meetings (early on in a project’s conception)
- Problem solving meetings
- Project feedback meetings
Generally, the more complex the topic, the more possible routes your team could take- the higher the chance people will leave the meeting on different pages.
Over the years, I’ve had this experience too many times — enough times that at some point, I decided that I needed to do something about it.
There’s a really obvious, very simple solution. But it didn’t occur to me until I had a call with Apple.
We’re an Apple business customer, so periodically I have a virtual meeting with our Apple Business rep who listens to our technical processes and helps us solve any system problems within our hardware and software configuration (which by the way, is a free service they offer and it’s not a sales call). We usually talk for an hour or two, I’ll explain something that’s not…
