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4 Participating in a meeting

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The fourth stage in our model for effective meetings is Participating in a Meeting. The discussion groups on Participating in a Meeting embrace a number of topics, starting with making a contribution, followed by intervening appropriately. [read more]

Taking notes

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  • 10 December 2020 at 9:13 pm #313
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    17 February 2021 at 12:28 pm #904
    Ron Eagle
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    Taking notes for yourself – style is your personal preference but useful to just make notes of key issues, actions allocated, queries relevant to you etc, rather than copious verbatim tomes; you are not Hansard. One more interesting way to capture notes, particularly in an active workshop style meeting is to use a technique called ‘Mind Mapping’ : look up ”Mind Map Mastery: The Complete Guide to Learning and Using the Most Powerful Thinking Tool in the Universe” on Amazon by Tony Buzan…its well worth a try.

    If you are running the meeting the good to allocate the note taking to a scribe who wont be (as) actively participating but taking focused attentiveness to the procedure to capture relevant details.

    During the session have a separate flip chat to take point, queries etc during the session…even more active participation is to ask members making points/raising queries to write them on themselves.

    17 February 2021 at 2:47 pm #909
    kieranfoley
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    A note on facilitating a meeting:

    People have different degrees of granularity regarding a facilitator capturing what they are saying – there isnt a “one size fits all ” approach.

    Person A may say a paragraph’s worth of speech and be happy with you stripping out all the fluff and writing “Increase sales in Malaysia”

    Person B may say virtually the same thing but not be happy unless you record it almost verbatim “one of the issues that we face in the coming quarter is the implementation of revised corporate sales targets with particular reference to selected South East Asian expansion opportunities”. It isn’t worth getting into a fight over brevity with this type of person. Often they will naturally become less verbose when they see they may be the only one with a wall of text for each of their points.

     

    31 May 2022 at 4:57 pm #9422
    Ron Eagle
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    One common theme to almost all meetings is the necessity to take some form of recording of the session and of any outcomes.

    In some cases this may need to be a laborious and extremely accurate and comprehensive style of recording of every utterance and action during the meeting. This is most common in highly political discussions or those in the public interest. These require high precision and totality of content that may be required for later evidence or interrogations. Parliamentary dealings are a typical example i.e. the Hansard recordings.

    In other cases it may only need a record of actions agreed and their owners and timeline allocations. These would be most usual business type meetings requirements.

    Yet another possibility is meetings where no recordings are made at all formally. Military, security or commercially secret sessions would most likely not want formal recordings taken and documented for obvious reasons.

    There is, however, another style of meeting and recording where recordings are neither comprehensive nor totally secret. These are where they are held under the ‘Chatham House rule’.  The Rule reads as:

    “When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.”

    The rule is a system for holding debates and discussion panels on controversial topics, named after the headquarters of the UK Royal Institute of International Affairs. This is an independent policy institute and a trusted forum for debate and dialogue based in Chatham House, London, where the rule originated in June 1927.

    The Chatham House Rule Is normally used on ‘brainstorming’ or similar open voiced creative sessions where contributions may be very sensitive, socially or legally questionable or downright apparently impractical. This rule would be a pre-agreed guide for running an event, particularly when issues of a sensitive nature are to be discussed.

    In a polarised world, used effectively, the Chatham House Rule helps to bring people together, break down barriers, generate ideas and agree solutions.

    The idea being that it helps create a trusted environment to understand and resolve complex problems with no holds barred on potential inputs until workable ideas or outcomes can be assessed. Its guiding spirit is to allow the sharing of the information created, but without revealing the identity of (and thereby possibly embarrassment or detriment) those who said it. Political legislative creation debates pre green paper creation or scientific or commercial new development creative sessions would be examples of where such a rule may be enacted.

    The advantage of such a session is that it allows for all unpalatable or incredible views to be explored as well as the obvious and a true lateral thinking environment to flourish.

    Disadvantages can be:

    (1) although in spirit no record is kept of any of the more outlandish inputs, this does not mean that those present may remember them afterwards and maintain a judgement on you in ‘private’.

    (2) If really inventive and/or laudable outcomes are produced and published those will be attributed either to a (possibly anonymously attended) group or maybe to the named chair. This means that any ‘brilliant’ contribution by individuals will not be acknowledged….a consideration for those eager for recognition perhaps.

    (3) Since no one is named as contributing then in converse, they cannot plead innocence to any controversial outcomes that later emerge (or are leaked dishonourably).

    So if invited to such sessions be clear on the pros and cons when defining your participation.

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