Excluding Team Members From Meetings

I don’t know about you
but I go to enough meetings.
I’m thrilled when I’m not needed
in a meeting…

…as long as I don’t know
about that meeting.

Recently, an email went out
to a project team I’m on.
The project manager asked that
‘key members’ attend a smaller meeting
and she named these key members.

The rest of the hard working team
was pissed off.
They got the message
that they weren’t key,
and they weren’t important
to the success of the project.
Their engagement level plummeted.
The project got shifted
to low priority.

It is great to have smaller breakout meetings.
Smaller meetings are more efficient
and more conducive to quick decision making.

Just don’t broadcast that
you’re having them.
Exclude team members quietly.