2 posts tagged “meetings”
I recently read an article (I can't remember where) about topless meetings. Meaning, that all laptops and PDA's would be put in a basket when you walk in so that people could focus and the meetings would be more productive.
That sounds good in theory. I always get irritated at a school meeting when a soccer mom constantly pecks away on her iPhone and the meeting takes longer than it needs to and I have a real job to get back to. It could also be that I'm jealous because she has an iPhone and obviously a lunch date and my Blackberry sits silent.
At my next meeting someone asked me for a phone number. It was on my Blackberry. We had to come up with a time-line for grant application submissions. My calendar is on my Blackberry. Every time I picked it up to check for the phone number or the calendar, the person running the meeting would say, "Ginka, put down that crackberry and get back with us!" "Quit checking your email and focus!" I would explain that I wasn't checking my email, it was the calendar like she asked me but it didn't matter.
So what's better? Banning all devises therefore banning information vital to a productive meeting or having the devises but being harassed for it?
Since I've been back in town, it's been meeting after meeting after meeting. It's only Wednesday! I need to wear one of these:
