TregoED Blog — Meetings

Looking forward to your next meeting?  In many cases, the answer to that question is “nope.”  Many meetings have been viewed as at worst – time-sucking obligations, mind-numbing information dumps, frustrating rehashes and/or contentious public forums of off-track topics, or at best dull and uninspiring.  Holding meetings in an online platform has only amplified those Read the full article…

Is there any doubt that a leader influences the culture of a district, department, school, or other group?  While perhaps not totally responsible for it, the leader plays a large role in helping create or sustain it.  That culture either works for or against you and your departmental or district goals and mission. In Mary Read the full article…

  Leaders often face big “hot seat” meetings – lots of participants, opinions, issues, and controversy.  Having a simple standard process can help them make sure that people are heard, information is processed, and suitable actions are taken.  But what about the numerous intimate meetings that take place every day in schools?  IEP meetings, for Read the full article…

“Why? Because I said so!” Whether or not you have used this reasoning before, you cannot get through life without hearing it. It is often the answer of a frustrated parent, who is just too tired or too time-crunched to explain, or sometimes, they just may not have a good why! Leaders sometimes communicate this Read the full article…

I recently attended a somewhat long and somewhat productive meeting debriefing all of the complex issues in holding a professional development event for 250 people.  On the long ride home, my colleagues  and I discussed and debriefed the actual meeting.  We agreed that it was essential to have all of the stakeholders (chair-people from facilities, Read the full article…

Recently, I saw a poster with this observation: “Meetings: ‘None of us is as dumb as all of us…”.  While it is meant to be humorous, the underlying sentiment about meetings is very serious.  Meetings have a very bad reputation! “31 Lost Hours per Month.” One of the biggest complaints in most organizations is meetings–they Read the full article…