We all spend a lot of time in meetings, whether they be virtual, in person or hybrid. The quality of those meetings and the thinking they generate varies widely. Sadly, all too often the poor quality of meetings discourages people from preparing and participating as they might, which feeds a downward, and self-fulfilling, cycle in the quality of the meetings.
The second pillar of the Charter obviously speaks about a number of the issues around meetings. The changes to the Charter in January 2022 specifically focussed on the need to run meetings inclusively, taking account both of location of participants and their neurodiversity.
As part of our developing programme of events around specific aspects of the Charter and related issues, we are delighted to be hosting a session with Katie Driver of the Thinking Alliance. Katie is an accredited practitioner of the Thinking Environment®, a way of working developed by Nancy Kline which aims to generate the best possible thinking in the many different environments in which it’s needed – meetings being a prime example. Katie’s session will be about enabling better quality meetings and will draw on Thinking Environment® approaches which echo much of what the Charter speaks about. You can find out more about Katie and her approach in this post from May 2022 - Yes, you can have better meetings! | LinkedIn.
We want the session to be experiential as well as content driven and so we are limiting numbers to 40 a time. We will run the session twice at different times of the day to accommodate different time zones. We will record and edit the sessions so as to make the theory elements available in the members area of the website, but, to get the real benefit of the session, we strongly recommend attending live. Although anyone who runs meetings would benefit, numbers are limited and so we are focussing this event on you, the MBC leads within member organisations (and perhaps one or two other key people you might want to pass the invitation on to) - to make room for all members we would ask that places be limited to two per organisation.