NOTE: Written on April 18, 2025 but not published to my blog until May 20, 2025.
One day I decided to see how many people actually read and keep the meeting minutes. I try to make the flow of the team go as smoothly as possible - always sending out notices, putting links in the notices - any way to make it easier for the team so they don't have to rely on the meeting minutes but still, they are important, especially if you don't make the meeting.
Anyhoo, I decided to have a contest and I called it the "Seven Thousand Linden Meeting Minute Contest." The contest required you to create a folder with your name then do a search for "Dance Xcetera - Meeting Minutes." Put a copy of every meeting you have into this folder and hand it back to me. The contest closes on May 17th @ 6p SLT. Since most of the team did not show up for the next meeting I used it as a perfect opportunity to launch my contest. Those that were at the meeting were encouraged to get the minutes and read them anyway since I told them I was only touching base on some of the things I wanted to talk about but didn't due to lack of attendance.
If you can read the above, you will see that the contest wasn't going to be judged on how many cards you actually have, but how many you have vs. how many you should have. The one that comes closest to 100% gets the prize. This contest isn't advertised so no notices will go out about it and no reminders of the deadline, they won't even know what hit them until our May 20th meeting.
UPDATE: May 20, 2025 - I love my team, every last one of them. Not everyone submitted folders but there were far more than I had thought!
So I'll break it down like this:
- 1/4 of the team submitted entries. One of them still asks me "who, what, where, when" and my favorite, "do you have the link?" No friend, you do.
- For those who didn't, I've rarely or never have had to chase them down for anything. They know the "who, what, where when" and always are on point.
Every year on my birthday Mr. Chad Shoreman - my real life husband - gives me $100 to upload to Second Life. This is in addition to the monthly expenses I normally upload linden for. This year I decided to earmark the entire $100 to the team because there was never going to be only one winner. Every person who submitted a folder, every person who messaged me to tell me they only had the meeting minutes from that night won $7000 Linden Dollars each. Why? Because they paid attention.
I am a very proud and happy 🐝 Queen Bee. 🐝
