We have a team meeting 2 times a month usually at my house. It is always incredibly productive and really fun. However to the untrained eye, I don't think you would think it was even a business meeting if you walked in....
We have the all of us, but also in the summer all of our assorted children as well. We often if we plan well enough eat lunch together as we do the meeting. It is a mixture of catching up with eachother's lives, business planning, delegating of up coming tasks, recognition, training and what ever else comes up. We do not yet have agendas that are formal even though we do usually have things we have planned to go over.
Today as we did out meeting for almost 2 hours with 7 kids in the house and 4 of us I realized that this time we spend together a couple times a month is part of what makes us effective and a real team. I so love working with the ladies on our team and it is so great that they all support and love eachother as well. Really it's more like a family get together where we happen to discuss businees and while it makes for a crazy day some Tuesdays I would not trade it for anything!
What did the kids do during our meeting?
Watch a movie and have pop corn
set up a for profit lemonaide stand in front of the house
dig in the garden
play with the cat and dog
eat snacks
draw picture
dance and play dress up
If you ask me good use of their time too!
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