Don’t Do Team Meetings

Don’t Do Team Meetings Regular team meetings are often treated as a default part of work. They are seen as a sign of coordination, alignment, and healthy communication. In practice, they often reveal the opposite. A recurring team meeting where everyone goes around the room to explain what they did last week is usually not a good use of time. It turns communication into a performance instead of a real exchange of useful information. If the team needs a formal meeting just to learn what people have been doing, that is often a sign that day-to-day communication is already failing. The problem with “what did you do last week?” meetings They happen too late Work should not become visible only once a week in a meeting. If something matters, it should already have been shared when it happened: when a task was completed, when a blocker appeared, when a useful idea emerged, or when help was needed. Waiting for a meeting to report progress means information is delayed, and delayed information…