Hi Velda, Funny you should ask, I went to our meeting this am.  We have a sales meeting once per month.  Always the first Wed. of the month.  We know when it is and have no excuse about forgetting!  The broker goes over new MLS news, things that are going on in finance and other pertinent information.  Then we disscuss our problems, listings, buyers, and other questions that we need to share.  She does not allow this to turn into a *** session or get off the topic.  She runs this meeting tightly!  We get all our questions answered or someone will get back to you but it really works.  It goes about an hour or so...and most of the time she feeds us lunch afterwards or snacks and some of the conversations continue through.    We like the meetings this way.  It is informative and she knows that we have heard of changes, etc.

Velda,

When I used to work at my old company, for the first two years, under my first manager, the meetings were scheduled every week but our manager would cancel if she didn't have enough important news. The agents were from quite a large area and she didn't want them wasting their time just to find out she didn't have much to say ... she was a VERY SMART MANAGER!

As of right now, as you know my office is quite small too. 4 of us right now. When there were 3 of us, up until about a month and half ago, I used to call the meetings together about once a month, on Wednesdays, or more often if we had something important to talk about. Since Sarah, my newest associate, came on board (you may have seen here on Relib a couple times in the last few weeks), we've been having meetings every other week and on the alternating weeks Sarah and I have been going on Broker tours when there were enough new listings to see (Wednesdays are tour days in the area where we have our office). There are three main reasons why we go on these tours ... 1. to see what's out there, 2. to increase visibility of our office and 3. to take it as a recruiting opportunity ... talking to other agents, see who may be a good fit for our team. We did skip this week's meeting because I finally decided to take a week off and did actually manage to stay away from work for the most part until today. While I like for all 4 of us being at the meetings, if either agent has something important and can't attend, I don't force the issue. I just let them know the important things over the phone or send them an e-mail.

Our meetings are very relaxed ... talk about any real estate related news, laws, each agent's local market, farming, plus address any issues that they feel they need to talk about ... we even get to talk about our families from time to time ... and why not ... without the support of our family members, we wouldn't be able to do what we do! Once the office grows more in size, the meetings will get to be more formal but until then, I'm pretty happy with the format as is.