Improve Teamwork and Productivity With a Morning Huddle

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  Enrico Pallazzo08/08/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Improve Teamwork and Productivity With a Morning Huddle

  We used to do something similar to this at a previous job. But does this allow for non-work conversation, much as you'd find at a water-cooler?

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  ndlicht108/09/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Improve Teamwork and Productivity With a Morning Huddle

  What? The morning huddle won't stop people talking with eachother during work. People naturally do that. Its part of what makes work a place to be.
  
  Imprompttu talking is an incredible way to relate with and make suggesstions or seek suggestions without a public audience.
  
  Managed morning huddles actually are looked at as yet another way to get us to work on time. Its too forced and becomes a daily boredom ritual.
  
  Come on, recognize people as people. Hold a huddle weekly perhaps but stop the nonsense of shutting people down. Drudgery, not liking work results. Do you really want that?

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  jyotinmehta08/12/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Improve Teamwork and Productivity With a Morning Huddle

  Morning Huddle meetings will be effective only if the leadership facilitates free flow conversation and genuinely participates as an equal. The meetings lose significance if the leader starts using this to allocate work (often with unrealistic deadlines) and chiding staff for previous day's failures. I have myself run huddle meetings in my office department and these were pretty much effective, we also used to greet colleagues for birthdays, anniversaries and even on accomplishments of children.