Meetings should help schools map their progress towards their goals
Given that schools can become insanely busy places with all the changes taking place, school principals should identify those bad habits or practices that slow down their performance and those that compromise their team talks. One such habit is the absence of a comprehensive staff communication strategy. I want to talk about that dreaded team talk called The Meeting. Schools tend to use one channel, the formal meeting, to conduct most of their communication with staff members. Hallo, there are other communication platforms that you can use to great effect. We are living in the 21st century! Before the invention of digital technologies, including social media, meetings were probably the fastest medium to reach the whole team. Sending letters or making phone calls in the past would have been seen as expensive, impractical ways to share routine information or messages. It is different today. You can send an e-mail or use one of the chat services to commu...