Strategies and Tactics: Improving Meeting Strategies and ChatGPT's Thoughts on Why Quality Programs Exist
A New Tactic, Career Advice, and Ideas to Improve the Industry
A New Idea to Explore: Improving Meeting Strategies
Earlier in my career, I wish I knew there could be a strategy to the flow of our meetings. In a semi-recent Elevate Construction podcast, Organize Your Meetings, Jason Schroeder talked about the flow of information through the series of project meetings. As we integrate quality tasks within our daily work, we could get a huge benefit by:
Listing out all the required meetings for the project.
Listing the agendas of each meeting next to one another.
Analyzing how the quality tasks fit in to each meeting.
Thinking about what meetings can be eliminated or shortened?
Sometimes there’s a tendency to remove quality items from agendas to give them their own meeting. Yes, dedicated quality meetings are needed when critical elements of the job require greater attention to detail. However, we can’t talk about quality without schedule, safety, and everything else. It actually hinders our productivity when we break quality out separately.
What I'm Thinking About: Why Don't Teams Have Time for Quality?
Thinking further on my previous Quick Thoughts on the Empire State Building (apparently) lacking a formalized quality program, I asked ChatGPT to help me dig deeper on the why of formal quality programs. (Perhaps because I have a quality title, I can ask these harder, philosophical questions.) Here's a link to the conversation. More to come on this topic as I believe many are struggling with this topic.
What I'm Writing Next
I’m finishing Part 4: Analyzing Feedback and Input of the framework for Building a Business Case for Quality.
Thanks for reading!