Making meetings better
V – so what’s new this month? A – the thing that struck me was the number of meetings that were a waste of time or not as effective as they could be. M – Oh same old, same old. If only the rest of
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Public officials lie! But don’t we all.
V – Any progress on the mental health crisis review that you reported on last time? A – An update to the Health and Wellbeing Board suggested the authorities were supporting such a review. V – Good news. A – Yes, but I wanted to
Partnerships as coherent entities or shifting coalitions
V – so how is the mental health work going? We haven’t heard about that for a while. A – Well, OK. Perhaps not as much happening across the strands of work as I’d ideally like and maybe the statutory bodies doing things themselves,
How partnership groups don’t always deliver their best
V – if I remember correctly, you should have had the presentation by now to the Health and Wellbeing Board that your mental health group was working towards? A – Yes, indeed, we have. V – and how did it go? M – presumably not
Another month, another mental health meeting
V – so, another month, another mental health meeting? A – Indeed. V – so what happened? Wasn’t there a presentation to be made to the Health and Wellbeing Board? A – Yes. A draft presentation was circulated several weeks ago and I replied within
If you’re unfamiliar with strategy, have a meta-conversation
V – so Adrian, following on from the previous blogs, perhaps you could bring us up to date with the work on the mental health strategy? M – don’t tell me, some terrible meetings and nobody understands your tortured genius. A – of course. But
The path to a mental health strategy – blocked by breakdown in basic good practice
V – so, we were hearing last time that a big, round table meeting had decided to set up a Mental Health Action Group. You didn’t think that was much of a step forward because a similar group already existed. But at least you’d agreed
Putting the work into workshops – a matter of life and death
Making meetings effective could be a life and death issue. Partnership working often requires joint delivery of something – whether a strategy, programme of action, event or whatever. But producing something jointly is a challenge. That’s one of the reasons why in organisations tasks are
3 x 3 ways to waste less time in meetings
I was struck last week by how two different meetings failed to be as effective as they might have been, and how it was simple, and well-known advice that could have improved them. Both suffered from many of the classic problems with meetings. People turned
A type of incompetence from which we can all suffer
I sit round the table with some very talented people in a number of different boards, groups and committees. Working individually (often in organisations that help co-ordinate their actions) they are very effective. But just sometimes, when we get together, we can be collectively incompetent.