Yesterday and today have been extremely busy days at the day job. Whilst most of the yesterday was good busy, being with some visiting guests from a creative & innovative solutions company, taking them in various operational areas in the kitchen & getting home later than usual; today was mostly at door to door meetings. I have no problem either attending or facilitating meetings, as long as we walk out with some decisions taken and next actions agreed. Unfortunately, it wasn't the case of at least 2 of the 4 meetings that I attended.Oh, well… 1 meeting of course,had to be cancelled first thing in the morning, as most of the invitees from the kitchen did not turn up for the negotiations, for which the meeting was planned for in the first place. Disappointing indeed, specially because I myself arranged the meeting with lots of difficulties to get people together and a suitable meeting room. In trying to arrange the meeting, I found it was quite a task to figure out free time of the intended invitees from O365 calendar. I just can't understand why in the world Microsoft doesn't have a feature to suggest free or available time of people to make things easier in organizing meetings.
The only meeting, that was interesting and I walked out with some meaningful action was the one I attended with Innovation Lab about a potential technological project on smart trolley. I even got the meeting notes outlining what was discussed, agreed and next action points in email, by the time when I got back to my seat.
Written By Sumudu
2017-06-21T00:58:00Z