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Try giving the developers more value. For example it could be
short demoes showing new features developed in the recent sprint. (By everyone)
a lessons-learned discussion in which they have a chance to change the way the team work and improve (discussion led your right hand in the team, and you are there to justify your management decisions. like a 1on1 ...
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Don't hold long meetings and leverage project managing software. If you want to keep people interested, then condense and highlight what matters and save the rest for project logs and reports. Concentrate on milestones, deliveries, highlights and goals, and if only applies to 1/3 of the people, shelf it for a project discussion thread.
Keep your meetings ...
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You said that the meetings feel like you are lecturing them. If it feels that way to you, and the team doesn't seem interested in what you have to say, then why still have the meeting? If you're just throwing information at them, and it isn't holding their attention, why not just summarize everything in a weekly email instead?
If you want to make use of ...
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Can the meeting or hold it much less often. Write your lectures in a regular email and send it out to everyone.
Only have meetings if the people in them actually have reason to participate in them. Otherwise, you really are wasting folks' time.
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Welcome to the world of middle management!
You are going to find this type of problem happening a LOT!
You have 3 options:
Big Stick
Do this or you are sacked - never works. Don't do it.
Ownership
Get them to facilitate the meetings. Take a step back and nominate someone else. Have it as a rotating position where a different person hosts each time.
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