At one time or another we have all had to sit through Monday morning meetings.  Entrepreneur Jessica Rovello tells us how she came up with an innovative way to solve a routine problem in her business in a recent story from the WSJ’s “Fast Fixes” feature for Small Business.  “Rovello decided that she needed to revamp the weekly company meeting, which had become a mundane operation where the same people would talk over and over.”

Ms. Rovello is fortunate that she works in a very creative environment, her company develops online flash-based games, where as she says, “It’s a way to keep everyone interested, informed and involved.”  She involves different hosts for each meeting and a different person from each department is asked to present.   Having spent many years in the advertising industry, I can attest that novel approaches can succeed not only in the Monday gathering but other types of meetings, too.

Have you seen or tried any unique approaches to hosting internal staff meetings?  Can traditional environments be more creative with their gatherings without being seen as “silly”?