add progress meetings doc

Author: andrewsu

handbook/index.md

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 ## Lab policies
 * [Group meetings](/handbook/groupmeetings)
+* [Progress meetings](/handbook/progress-meetings)
 * [Slack](/handbook/slack)
 * [Holiday and vacation policy](/handbook/holiday-and-vacation)
 * [Travel and reimbursements policy](/handbook/travel-and-reimbursements)

handbook/progress-meetings.md

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+---
+title: Progress meetings
+---
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+{% include breadcrumbs.html %}
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+# {% include icon.html icon="fa-solid fa-users" %}Progress meetings
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+In general, I have periodic meetings with all lab members to discuss their projects, usually weekly or biweekly. These meetings sometimes will be one-on-one and sometimes will be in small project teams. During these meetings, we will discuss progress, results, and/or problems with the continual goal of optimizing the efficiency and impact of lab members' work.
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+Although I am sometimes terrible at following them, I believe these best-practices make progress meetings most productive:
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+* **The lab member should prepare and share the agenda in advance.** The agenda could be very brief -- 3-5 bullet points -- and should take no more than 15 minutes to prepare.
+* **These meetings should rarely be canceled or postponed.** Unless there has been sickness or vacation, it is equally useful to discuss things that are not working as it is things that are working.
+* **Your flexibility is appreciated.** I often have one-off events that require coordinating many calendars (committee meetings, consortium meetings, etc.), and one-on-one or small team meetings sometimes need to be juggled to accommodate.