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Meetings, bloody meetings

Creative dialogue for better problem solving, collaboration and creativity.

Simon Nash

Have we always been meeting this way…

Have we always been meeting this way…

What’s wrong with meetings today?

• Format – choosing the right format for the meeting purpose.

• Courtesy – rules of behaviour

• Ego – personality issues / organisational purpose

• Technique – making the most of the developments in organisational psychology and other disciplines

Meetings – the big questions

Why are we here?Meeting purpose –information sharing, decision making, regular habit, statutory …

When are we done?

What are we going to do?

How are we going to work?

Who needs to do what?

Timing influences behaviour … in the West.

Rules and norms.

Team roles and techniques

Responsibility and specific roles such as chairing, minutes, timekeeping etc.

“Steering” Meetings

More Structure

Text

More Information

More Energy

More Generative

FBM

E.g.• Standing Report

E.g.• Brainstorming

E.g.• Agendas• Rules of Order

E.g.• Open Space• Appreciative Inquiry

Energy

Data

Ideas

Structure

Types of Brainstorming – over 100 identified…

• Idea hubbub• Silent start• Written Brainstorming (post – its)• Multi-voting• Step Ladder technique• Reverse Brainstorm• Facilitated vs group led

Six Thinking Hats

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