{"id":339,"date":"2017-11-18T17:04:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T17:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anjo.pt\/wp\/knowledge-facilitation\/?p=339"},"modified":"2017-11-18T17:04:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T17:04:38","slug":"bad-companies-do-meetings-good-companies-do-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/knowledge-facilitation\/2017\/11\/18\/bad-companies-do-meetings-good-companies-do-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad companies do meetings. Good companies do parties."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing\u00a0I&#8217;ve done when\u00a0I\u00a0become\u00a0(again)\u00a0team coordinator was to\u00a0organise\u00a0a &#8220;pizza and ticket\u00a0party&#8221;.\u00a0As the client missed to give clear directions and list priorities, the team piled up dozens of tickets.\u00a0We could not just work extra hours to fix the problem.\u00a0We\u00a0needed\u00a0to build\u00a0a new spirit.\u00a0So I suggested a pizza dinner at our company office.\u00a0We\u00a0distributed beers, connected to the client environment and for one hour\u00a0we\u00a0worked all together just answering and closing\u00a0tickets.\u00a0Then\u00a0we\u00a0decided the toppings, ordered and had them delivered, finishing a few more\u00a0tickets\u00a0meanwhile.\u00a0We\u00a0bond close together and the next week I put on a virtual one-hour meeting every afternoon for &#8220;ticket\u00a0party&#8221;.\u00a0Soon after that week, the backlog of\u00a0tickets\u00a0from the last three months had decreased from 50 to\u00a05\u00a0and the client was happy again.<\/p>\n<p>The motivation is the biggest resource to gain productivity and quality.\u00a0This is where\u00a0I\u00a0aim to when\u00a0I\u00a0coordinate a\u00a0team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing\u00a0I&#8217;ve done when\u00a0I\u00a0become\u00a0(again)\u00a0team coordinator was to\u00a0organise\u00a0a &#8220;pizza and ticket\u00a0party&#8221;.\u00a0As the client missed to give clear directions and list priorities, the team piled up dozens of tickets.\u00a0We could not just work extra hours to fix the problem.\u00a0We\u00a0needed\u00a0to build\u00a0a new spirit.\u00a0So I suggested a pizza dinner at our company office.\u00a0We\u00a0distributed beers, connected to the client [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-management","7":"category-theories","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/knowledge-facilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/knowledge-facilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/knowledge-facilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/knowledge-facilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/knowledge-facilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/knowledge-facilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/knowledge-facilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/knowledge-facilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/knowledge-facilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/knowledge-facilitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}