Action Plan 1

1.Record and Read

Record formal and informal meetings in a fixed period of time

  • Formal Meeting – Audio Recorder
  • Informal Meetings and feelings about all meetings – Diary

(2 weeks)

Read about

  • Different aspects of meeting, talking and interaction

The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker

Good to Great, Jim Collins

Dare to Lead, Brene Brown

Thanks for the Feedback, Sheila Heen, Douglas Stone

Difficult Conversations, Sheila Heen, Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton

The Art of Community, Charles H Vogl

Listening, Thinking, Being, Lisbeth Lipari

The Other Side of Language: A Philosophy of Listening, Gemma Corradi Fiumara

Presence, Patsy Rodenburg

  • Research methods

Creative Research Methods in the Social Sciences, Helen Kara

Visualizing Research, Carole Gray, Julian Malins

Visual Methodologies, Gillian Rose

2. Analyse and understand

Graphically analyse material

Identify different

  • Types (Square)
  • Elements (Dot)
  • Dynamics (ZigZag)

Then within meetings:

  • How did I feel? (Colour)
  • How did we sit? (Shape)
  • Who spoke, when did they speak, for how long? (Line)
  • What type of speech? E.g. questions or statements (Material and/or texture)
  • How did they speak? E.g. loud or quiet (Tone)

(2 weeks)

3.Choose

Choose an aspect of meeting. A type, element or dynamic.

 4. Develop

Develop a set of practices to implement.

(1 week)

5. Apply and Record

Apply for a fixed period of time and record using same methods as before.

(2 weeks)

6. Reflect and Future Plan

Reflect on results from stage 5. Make plan for future.

(1 week)

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