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Team Brief Guidelines CONTENTS • Introduction • What is team briefing? • The benefits of team briefing • The team briefing process • The team briefing calendar • Guidelines for managers with a responsibility for delivering a team briefing • Feedback and follow up • Guidelines for those receiving a team briefing • Monitoring the team briefing process • Frequently asked questions WHAT IS TEAM BRIEFING? In simple terms, team briefing brings managers together with their teams on a face-to-face basis so that information can be delivered, questions asked and feedback collected. A team briefing system is an excellent way to enable communication upwards, downwards and sideways throughout an organisation. Research has shown that face-to-face …show more content…

The team briefing process will begin on the first Monday of each month (where Bank Holidays fall on a Monday the briefing will take place on the next available working day). On these dates (outlined in the Team Briefing Calendar), the Registrar will meet with his team of direct reports and give a verbal Core Brief. Where it is felt necessary to support this with a written document, bullet points will be made available. Each of the Registrar’s direct reports must nominate a deputy who can attend this verbal Core Brief session if they themselves are unable to attend. Those managers who have received the Registrar’s verbal Core Brief should then be in a position to deliver their own team brief to their team of direct reports. This team briefing should include the points from the Registrar’s Core Brief (around 30% of the content of the briefing), however the majority of the briefing should consist of local information ie: information relating to each specific function/area of work. These managers should then brief their own teams, again including the information from the Core Brief and the local brief which they have received, and again adding

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