"standing meeting" is a perfectly acceptable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to mean a meeting that is recurring and happens regularly at scheduled intervals. For example, you could say: "We have a standing meeting every Wednesday at 9am to discuss progress."
Your intern should have a standing meeting with their mentor weekly the first month and then bi-weekly should be fine.
The leader will need to establish a standing meeting time and develop an agenda to utilize their time to the fullest extent possible.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal's candid Rolling Stone interview prompted the White House to summon McChrystal, the most senior military commander in Afghanistan, to the capital for a standing meeting.
A 15-minute standing meeting will ensure that no one drones on, and data shows that standing meetings are not only shorter but more effective.
When Dr. Wilmot asked a group of volunteers recently to reduce their daily sitting time by an hour, "they came up with lots of ideas," she says, including "putting the garbage bin on the other side of the office, standing during coffee breaks and telephone calls, having standing meetings, standing on the bus".
Standing meetings, which some companies have adopted to hasten the end of the gathering, only solve part of the problem.
When we're standing up we do things faster, hence the brief craze amongst "trendy" companies for installing bar-height tables for standing meetings after a study found that sitting meetings lasted 34% longer.
As a rule, standing meetings are scheduled after 10 a.m. and before 4 p.m. 2. Performance is measured by results -- not facetime.
"We're talking about nuclear reactors here," the managers said, "If we change the way we do things, something could blow up!" Undaunted by their response, my colleague asked the managers to simply list all of their reports, approval procedures, reviews, audits, metrics, decision forums, standing meetings, and other management processes.
"We can have standing meetings, we can walk during the lunch break, and we can look to reduce TV viewing in the evenings by seeking out less sedentary behaviours".
Each day begins with a stand-up meeting (standing up prevents the meeting from lasting too long).
