A source of employee dissatisfaction is ALWAYS a lack of communication. It’s in the top three complaints your team has. I guarantee it. Your team wants more info than you give.

Inevitably you’ve tried a weekly team meeting. You put it on the calendar.

The first one was a resounding success. You had so much to say that the meeting ran into overtime.

The second meeting wasn’t bad, but the content dropped.

By the third meeting, you struggled to scrape together enough to fill the time. You shifted to monthly as a compromise.

Within four months the meeting was gone from everyone’s calendar. Or worse yet, it has continued as a painful time waster spent reviewing long to-do lists.

Think about this. For a team of 25, a one hour meeting is costing y...