Thank you to all Supported Living staff (Invercargill & Dunedin) who participated in either the online survey or phone survey around Team Meetings, it is so helpful to get everyone’s views on how the meetings are going and whether there is room for improvement.

The results have been sent to Team Leaders and they will be looking at incorporating your feedback into practice over the coming months. An overview of the results is as follows:

• 56 % of staff rated meetings as either extremely or very useful, no staff rated meetings as not at all useful.
• 79% of staff preferred the Support Centre as the meeting location
• 81% of staff prefer the current structure of meetings (monthly, 1 hour in duration)
• There were a range of preferences for how and when staff prefer to be informed about team meetings. I would encourage individual teams to discuss this and identify a method / notice period that would work for everyone.
• A range of barriers to staff attending meetings were identified including meetings at times staff cannot attend (e.g. on day off). Again, it’s important to discuss these with your team leader so alternative arrangements can be made. If you cannot make a team meeting please take the time to message your team leader with any items you would like added to the agenda and afterwards, review the meeting minutes which can be found in the “Service” section of Flow Logic.

If you have any suggestions or comments around teams meetings at your service I would encourage you to contact your team leader.

Once again, thank you for your input.

Sarah Hayes