Revolutionalizing Informal Meetings ( Second Stage)

I considered the first stage of this process as an opportunity for us (Rachel and me) to promote effective knowledge sharing in informal meetings. I strongly believe that this way, if all goes well, we would be able to formalize knowledge sharing across the organization and among our partners by introducing new KS methods and tools.

So, at the coffee meeting last week a big group turned up since all the big shots were there. The chairperson informed the big shots about the change people expected of the meeting. He then displayed his good facilitation skills by engaging members in an important exercise. The exercise involved each member writing on two cards (blue and yellow) one at a time, about;

i) What they liked about the meeting (blue cards) and
ii) What they would like to have changed (yellow cards)?

The rules were that;
i) everyone present would have to participate
ii) No cheating was expected ( for every member, one of the each card was expected)

All sorts of ideas and suggestions were made and all the cards were pinned up. The essence of this was to have everyone get to know what others felt and as a guide for planning in the next meeting.

A roster of chairpersons for the subsequent meetings was put up and by chance the next person in line is Rachel our M&E coordinator who attended both the online and F2F of the second KS workshop with me. Great isn’t it?