Team Meetings
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Effective team meetings on the farm are vital to keep everyone informed and motivated. This page offers guidance on how to conduct both daily stand-up meetings and weekly meetings to ensure they are structured, purposeful, and suit your team's needs. Daily stand-up meetings should be brief, standing, and focused on immediate tasks and obstacles. Weekly meetings allow for more in-depth planning and problem-solving. Tips include starting and ending on time, taking and sharing notes, involving everyone, respecting contributions, and setting group rules. Regular feedback from staff can help improve these essential communication sessions.
Ensure your team know what is happening on-farm and why with structured and effective team meetings.
Well-run meetings result in motivated teams who contribute to decision-making and problem-solving and take pride in their work. Meetings are about making time to save time.
Formal or informal, ensure meetings are structured and purposeful with an agenda, and clear expectations around attendance and individual contribution.
Meetings need to work for your team and business needs. Will you have 15-minute daily catch-ups and/or weekly meetings? Regularly ask your staff for feedback about your meetings so you can improve them.
Daily stand-up meetings are to talk about what’s going on at work now and to make sure everyone is ok with the day’s plan.
These meetings should:
These meetings should not be used for:
Weekly meetings are used to improve how things get done on-farm and allow you to avoid miscommunication by delivering the same message to everyone.
These meetings should:
Potential agenda items: