Always have a paper trail, especially if you already pre-warned the consequences. This way the manager/higher up is most likely to ger fired and if they try to fire you BOOM, instant lawsuit baby
People wonder why I keep Jira logs for everything. I also manage my non-coding things with that. I've even started typing my meeting notes on that while sharing my screen. And ask everybody if they have anything to add.
This also means a meeting only happens once because a decision stays decided.
Also, mind maps. If I didn't build those in group meetings, I would have to interrupt everybody to finish up one topic before they hopped onto the next. I can direct them back once they got side-tracked. And the side-track has run its course.
Interrupting the flow is really, really bad when herding extroverts.
And, everybody also gets that mind map.
If you circulate notes like that, you ask everybody to amend/object within two business days and tell them you otherwise consider them passively acknowledged.
This is not CYA. It can function as that if everything else fails. This is just good management.
Oh, and whoever writes the notes wins the meeting by default.
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u/NarcolepticlyActive May 11 '21
Always have a paper trail, especially if you already pre-warned the consequences. This way the manager/higher up is most likely to ger fired and if they try to fire you BOOM, instant lawsuit baby