Our office recently started a project that requires a weekly meeting to review its progress. I was put in charge of spearheading the project which includes rallying the group to the conference room every Thursday morning.

Seems easy enough. When you establish a meeting that is held on the same day, same time, and same place every week, you would expect the “rallying” portion of the job to eventually go away.

I was wrong. Now, I could maybe see a need for a reminder if the meeting was monthly, but we are talking every single Thursday at 9:30am. Not to mention the fact that these meetings have been held over last 5 or 6 weeks… in a row.

If explicit details aren’t set out via an email reminder every week, people will just sit at their desk scratching their heads.

Everyone has a lot going on. At this point in our working careers, I shouldn’t have to babysit by setting up a reminder every week. Meeting canceled? Yes, you will hear from me.

An email reminder acts as a courtesy call, I get that. But when you don’t receive that reminder one week, it’s time to start thinking on your feet.

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