Meeting Madness
Day One of the meetings that will not die actually ended early yesterday when the Adobe file the speaker was looking for couldn't be found. This probably wasn't related to the fact there were over 20 files in the directory with descriptive names like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
I've talked about meetings and how if you don't use tools such as written agendas and facilitation you end up wasting a lot of people's time. Such is the case, so far, in the three day marathon of meetings I'm attending this week. The meetings focus on deciding which legal forms to use in the Judiciary's new court information system. Each island uses different forms and the intent is, where possible, to consolidate on one version. Remarkably, progress is being made but is awfully slow going because of the lack of focus that naturally occurs when you bring over 25 people together to discuss anything.
Oh well, if you ever have to lead a meeting, make sure you know how to use facilitation because, if you do, you can make things flow much faster and end up with a product that is better than if you didn't use facilitation.
Speaking of which, I gotta' go.
Aloha!