Behind Closed Doors

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• Assess your group meetings. Are your meetings providing a relevant exchange of information between all the participants? Do your meetings have action-oriented outcomes? Use the guidelines in ​Run Effective Meetings​ to improve your meetings. Review the section ​Run Effective Team Meetings​ if you’re not sure what to use as an agenda.

• Provide feedback to each person during one-on-one meetings. Give feedback on something that’s going well. If you see a problem, use the one-on-one to provide information on what needs to change.

• Ask yourself whether you’ve been deliberately avoiding any feedback issues. If so, what’s preventing you from providing feedback? See ​Guide to Giving Effective Feedback​ to troubleshoot your feedback problems. ...