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When Staff Meetings Become Gripe Sessions
Why do staff meetings morph into gripe sessions? Because leaders allow it!
If your meetings are characterized by griping and complaining, with little being accomplished, then it’s only because you’ve permitted employees to conduct themselves that way.
Gripe sessions waste valuable time. Gripe sessions are largely counterproductive—and rarely solve or advance anything. Gripe sessions lower morale to the cellar.
I’ve run into a number of managers who quit holding staff meetings because their meetings had become primarily gripe sessions. I’ve also discovered that managers may feel unequipped in handling griping and complaining from employees.
Here are five tips for preventing meetings from turning into gripe sessions:
Inspiring Teamwork Quotes
Inspiration defined: Stimulation of the mind or emotions to a high level of feeling or activity. Source: www.dictionary.com
Inspiration is beneficial as well as vital. It may even run a close second to oxygen! Quotes regularly stimulate my thinking, and too, my feelings.
The effects of inspirational quotes can stir thoughts or spur new actions. Here are a few quotes that may help a team think differently about its challenges, consider more fully its opportunities, set aside its conflict, and work together to achieve the organization’s goals.
1. None of us is as smart as all of us.
–Ken Blanchard
2. TEAM: Together Everyone Achieves More.
–Unknown
3. The strength of the team is each individual member… the strength of each member is the team.
–Coach Phil Jackson
