Everyone with a staff knows they need a staff meeting on a recurring basis, often weekly. And those who don’t have staff are themselves in other people’s staff meetings, making it one of the most common meeting types for anyone to attend. Sadly, there is often ambiguity around what they are for, making them annoying and inefficient. What I Want out of Staff Meetings The purpose of these meetings is twofold: 1) status updates, and 2) key decision making or the precursor conversations for decision making.