What is the difference between status meetings and decision meetings? Should they always be kept separate in a meeting?

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What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

The objective of a status meeting is for team members to report status to the team leaders, in an honest, verifiable, and
unbiased manner. This enables the team leader to track progress and plan corrective decisions if necessary, such as
adding resources or creating new communication paths.
The objective of a decision meeting is either, for a team leader to communicate a decision to the team and ensure it is
implemented through action items, or for a team to discuss a set of issues and achieve a consensus.
It is better to keep status and decision separate, such that team members do not feel punished for reporting problems.
A team leader needs the team members to report problems as soon as possible and can encourage this if the team
leader gives the opportunity for the team to resolve the problem first by themselves. If the problem worsen, then the
team leader may decide to intervene or to call a decision meeting in which the team cooperatively designs a solution.
In any case, there should be a time interval between the reporting of a problem and its corresponding intervention.