Keeping up to date with what individual employees or squads are doing is extremely important. But the exchange must not detract from the actual work.
Here we've put together some tips that can help you make your company's team meeting efficient and motivating:
Sitting down in the morning and having a cup of coffee before the real work starts - that's a good start to the working day. And that's exactly when you can schedule a quarter of an hour for status updates. We've found that the best thing is to have a fixed appointment, at the same time every day.
Daily exchange yes, but too much blah blah blah no! That's why we recommend the following form, which we have also become accustomed to in software development: Each employee gets a turn, but limits himself to the following three points and does not speak for more than two to three minutes:
The blockades also lead us to the next point. Problems do not belong in the daily exchange with the whole team. Write down the problems and then discuss individually with the people involved how you are going to tackle them.
Instead of notes, lists and task lists, you and your team can make status updates via the Meisterwerk app. Whether in the office or on the road to the customer or construction site, you and your staff can change the status of the job with just one click in the Meisterwerk app. Which status you choose is entirely up to you. Here are a few examples of how our customers have created their statuses according to their workflow: