Resourcing meeting check

Five questions on running the weekly resourcing meeting.

resourcing meeting, governance, decisions, working practices

Checks the course Running a weekly resourcing meeting. No pass mark — it is here so you can check yourself.

Question 1

Question 1 of 5

What should be on screen during the weekly resourcing meeting?

A slide deck prepared the day beforeProFinda itself - the live request queue and availability viewsLast month's utilisation reportNothing - screens distract from discussion

Working from the live queue means decisions are made against current data and recorded where they belong.

Question 2

Question 2 of 5

What makes a resourcing decision properly recorded?

Everyone in the room remembers itIt is captured against the request in the platform, with the named person and start dateIt is noted in a private spreadsheetThe requester is told verbally after the meeting

Recording the decision on the request itself means the following week starts from facts, not memory.

Question 3

Question 3 of 5

The most common reason weekly resourcing meetings drift is which of these?

Too few attendeesNo agenda, too many people, and decisions reopened the following weekThe meeting is too shortThe platform is too slow

Drift comes from missing structure - the course's format fixes attendance, agenda, and decision finality.

Question 4

Question 4 of 5

Roughly how long should the meeting take with a well-managed queue?

Forty-five minutesTen minutesHalf a dayTwo hours minimum

The format is designed to clear the queue in forty-five minutes; longer usually means triage is happening in the meeting.

Question 5

Question 5 of 5

A decision from last week is challenged again in this week's meeting. What does the format recommend?

Reopen and re-debate it as a standing itemOnly revisit it if there is genuinely new information, otherwise it stands as recordedEscalate every challenge to the managing partnerReverse it to keep the peace

Decisions stand unless something has materially changed; otherwise the meeting relitigates instead of allocating.

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