Happy Monday! (I know, it’s only Friday) III

Another way to make Mondays happy – Avoid the meetings!  One of the most common reasons for dreading Mondays seems to be meetings.  Especially Monday morning meetings.  Here at Specialized we avoid those like the plague, now.  I’ll admit back in the day we started our week with a Monday morning staff meeting.  What were we thinking?!  The mindset was to kick off the week but in hindsight, moving that meeting to mid week was one of the best things we ever did.  Oh the memories of watching people drag themselves into the office, the silence, it still makes me cringe.   If you absolutely can’t avoid a Monday meeting at least consider making it later in the day.  Prepare for those meetings on Friday, gathering and organizing data and reports so that’s not on your plate Monday morning to start haunting you Sunday evening.  You might take that to the next level by mixing up the meeting format.  Let’s face it, conference rooms are boring!  Why not meet at a local coffee shop and support a local business?  How about a walking or hiking meeting in a park? (as recovering traditionalists this is one of our favorites)  For those of you facing a meeting this coming Monday, get your stuff together for it today and dust off those walking shoes.  It’s going to be a beautiful day in Western PA. . . just saying!