My two cents - sometimes you do want to have a briefing scene, given the mileau of the story. Police examples have been brought up here...sometimes in those kinds of story the briefing can be an important scene in and of itself. Particularly if you're focusing on, say, the background investigative work rather than action (or in addition to action) ... behavioural analysis, profiling, and so on.
What you can do to make that less...infodumpy... is to have a something else for the reader to focus on. You can, as StarRanger suggested, do that purely based on the interactions between the characters. Make the dialogue snappy, so on.
I figure a good way is to have some other point to the scene beyond conveying information. Maybe focus on the newest member of the team, the rookie, and that being their first briefing (consequently they're nervous, watching everyone else). Or you can do the Arthur Conan Doyle thing, have one brilliant character trying to lead others to a conclusion by spelling out the information - in a way that poses the problem to the reader as well.
-- Acyl
What you can do to make that less...infodumpy... is to have a something else for the reader to focus on. You can, as StarRanger suggested, do that purely based on the interactions between the characters. Make the dialogue snappy, so on.
I figure a good way is to have some other point to the scene beyond conveying information. Maybe focus on the newest member of the team, the rookie, and that being their first briefing (consequently they're nervous, watching everyone else). Or you can do the Arthur Conan Doyle thing, have one brilliant character trying to lead others to a conclusion by spelling out the information - in a way that poses the problem to the reader as well.
-- Acyl