My Perfect Meeting...

In my head a perfect "beginning of the month meeting" in a dental office would go a little like this. . .

1. The office manager or doctor would have a meeting agenda to pass out to everyone. It would list things that needed to be addressed, goals that needed to be made for the new month, and also things that we need to accomplish in the meeting.


2. There would be lunch served at the meeting (the doctor would pay of course). Everyone is happier when their tummies are happy...I think that when I'm eating I pay attention better too.


3. The office manager would follow the agenda and keep everyone on task. If people take things away from the topic the office manager would make sure to bring the group back to topic before things get out of control and nothing gets accomplished.


4. When asked for the groups input on the listed topics or on the new month's goals the office manager would write them down to make sure that they are referred to later on if necessary.


5. In a perfect meeting the length will never exceed 90 minutes.


6. Instead of having a random time of "airing of grievances" the office manager would personally ask the employees before the meeting if they had any issues they would like to discuss during the meeting. The employee wouldn't have to voice their concerns to the office manager, but they would say yes or no. If they did have an issue they would tell the office manager how much time they would need to resolve it with the group. This would make it so the office manager would put this into the agenda, and make sure that the time is turned over to this employee and not forgotten about.


7. In a perfect meeting the doctor wouldn't ramble on about tedious little things. He wouldn't give a lame speech about how the practice needs to have some insane amount of production so that he can go to Europe for his next vacation.


8. The meeting would be wrapped up by the doctor and/or office manager letting the staff know that they are appreciated. Of course only if they have been working hard, and have achieved the goals that were set for the last meeting (by either genuine words or some form of monetary gift).

This is how a perfect meeting would go if we lived in Angela's idea of a perfect world.