All entries for Monday 22 October 2012

Briefings!!!

We had a case-study today, where we were proposed to become one of the senior managers or a general manager of a hotel and in the morning briefing cover all probles that need to be solved. So, having my privious degree in HR management I was preing to get the role of Personel and Training Manager because I know responsibilities and the tipical problems that HR manager may face....So imagine my disapointment when I got the role of the General Manager!!! General Manager? Seriosly? Check my post about team work where I was writing that I am not leader but a good coordinator.

But suprizenly, I got very usefull experience from this case-study. I discovered few key points in the succesful briefing. So there are some conclusions:

• Leasten. I reallized that by leastening others and finding solutions to their problem I actually automatically tackle my own problems.
• Involve others. I noticed that one of my team members was not involved in the discustion. But I couldn't spent time on him to motivate and encourage, consiquantly we did not use his ideas during desiagen making. I supose he had lots of ideas but I was not able to recognize it.
• Prioretize. There were so many points to cover, and I tried to cover all at the same time. I think you can imagine how hardly effective that approach was in the end.
• Create the agenda. I guess, this is the most important criteria to do sucsessful briefing. If you know the main propose of the briefing that realy helps you to go straight to your goal.

Arina Borodina : 22 Oct 2012 22:36 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem