The Friday 15:

Communication is a big deal in a growing company. Each person has the ability to contribute more ideas than they let on. Most of us would contribute more if we were asked in a non-threatening environment. With this in mind we have a meeting every Friday for 15 mins. This is an open ended meeting with the goal of talking about the prior week.

We focus on three main goals for the meeting. The first is to talk about any problems in the prior week. This enables people to talk about their problems and ask for help within the group. The second is to celebrate our accomplishments and failures of the prior week. The final goal is an open format where we talk about crazy off the wall ideas which could evolve into something meaningful.

As a manger of the company my goal is to talk as little as possible. I do enough of that during the week. I act as a facilitator and am not worried about the time too much.

Cheers,
Mike