Why meetings don't work and what might: new generation 'distributed power' meetings

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• Carrie Bedingfield (University of Cambridge) and
• Wednesday 01 November 2017, 11:00-12:00
• Sir Arthur Marshalls, CUED.

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A review of the last 15 years of informal observation and trial and improvement of ‘meeting experience design’ in industry revealing some clues about:

• why exactly meetings are decried as taking too much time, generating ineffective outcomes and reducing energy for the rest of day …
• what I’ve learnt that works better (with some ideas for your own meetings) but…
• why organisations and teams seem to deeply resist shifting to a different way

Followed by a discussion about:

• what the literature can already tell us about group interactions and the system in which meetings take place, and where the gaps might be
• the sources of improvement in meeting outcomes – where might research most usefully be directed in search of a shift forward in our knowledge and practice

This talk is part of the Engineering Design Centre Seminars series.

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