{"id":1613,"date":"2021-05-13T20:53:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T20:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cires-admin\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2021-05-13T21:03:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T21:03:46","slug":"may-2021-minimal-meeting-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cires-admin\/2021\/05\/13\/may-2021-minimal-meeting-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2021 Minimal Meeting Notice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dear CIRES colleagues, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inspired by CU Boulder\u2019s interim dean of engineering, I hereby (and entirely unofficially) declare May 24-28 a \u201cminimize meetings\u201d week. I would like to suggest a \u201cNO-meeting\u201d week, yet I know that\u2019s impractical for many of you and might delay critical teamwork for others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, to the degree you can do so, please cancel and don\u2019t schedule meetings that week. Put Zoom calls off. If an exchange can be handled by a quick email or phone call, please do it that way. If the topic can be deferred for a few days without significant impact, please push it back. For many of us, a week of minimal meetings means the opportunity to dive deeply into a project that demands a significant amount of focus. It might give you time to concentrate on\u2014and complete\u2014a paper or a critical assessment, or to make progress on a project that has been too easy to put off. And imagine this: It may also give you a chance to take some of your well-earned vacation time\u2014or furlough time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This has been an incredibly difficult year. This small act might help ease some of the sense of fatigue we have all felt: take a week off meetings if you can. If you can\u2019t, minimize them. I\u2019m going to do this, I\u2019m encouraging the administrative team to do this, and I encourage all of you to do the same. Cancel a meeting. Or five or ten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sincerely, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waleed Abdalati
CIRES Director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear CIRES colleagues,  Inspired by CU Boulder\u2019s interim dean of engineering, I hereby (and entirely unofficially) declare May 24-28 a \u201cminimize meetings\u201d week. I would like to suggest a \u201cNO-meeting\u201d week, yet I know that\u2019s impractical for many of you and might delay critical teamwork for others.  So, to the degree you can do so,… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 23:52:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cires-admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cires-admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cires-admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cires-admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cires-admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cires-admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1619,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cires-admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cires-admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cires-admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/cires-admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}