How to get more out of meetings

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Customer/employee headlines –5 minutes

Share your client and employee feedback with the rest of the team, with one sentence, indicating good or bad. Still, no discussion but continue to add issues to the issues list. If you take too long, then you are taking from others in the meeting. This is also an exercise in appreciating your team and time management.

To-do list – 5 minutes

Each team member either says that they’re done, not done, or if an item is in progress for each of their responsibilities from last week’s to-do list. Hold off on the discussion here and keep adding issues to your issues list.

IDS: Identify, Discuss, Solve –40 minutes

Finally, this is where the discussion begins.

IDS stands for: Identity, Discuss and Solve. This is the three-step problem resolution method you’re going to use to understand the root of problems, discuss the problems and then identify specific action items that

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Conclude – 5 minutes

Take this final section of the level 10 meeting agenda to recap your to-do list and identify the next steps from the meeting. In the Conclusion, you want to you can download and customize for your farm and employees that includes key policies that are becoming components of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) such as the Abuse Free Workplace policy.

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