Notes for meetup #18: Advice, training and development: Supporting scrutiny councillors to succeed Wednesday 14th July ?? 10.00-12.00 To celebrate Bastille Day, we had a French theme – well Dave had some madeleines and Matt did the chatfall countdown en français. To help participants to generate all of those good ideas we had nine minute networking, …
Sign up for meetup #18: Advice, training and development: Supporting scrutiny councillors to succeed Wednesday 14th July ?? 10.00-12.00 Yes, It’s that time of year, new councillors are being offered induction training, more experienced councillors are being offered refreshers, and development sessions are breaking out all over. So we thought now would be a good time …
Meetup notes: The secrets of parliamentary scrutiny In this meetup we heard a wonderful fishbowl conversation between three parliamentary clerks: Fay Bowen – Welsh Senedd – Clerk to the Public Accounts Committee and meetup veteran Matthew Congreve – House of Commons – Second Clerk to the Defence Committee Francisca Gale – Tynwald – Parliament of …
ScrutinyMeetup #17: The secrets of parliamentary scrutiny 10.00-12.00, Wednesday 16th June This topic came top of the poll when we asked participants at the March meetup. If, like us, you are keen to find out what those officers supporting parliamentary scrutiny do to help their committees sing, then this is the meetup for you. We …
At this meetup we used two activities to help us think about this issue; appreciative interviews and conversation cafe. Her are all the lovely ideas we collected in the chat. Hope there is something useful here for you ? What’s something that helps to support digital engagement with scrutiny? being allowed to hold scrutiny meetings virtually …
Here are the instructions for this meetup: Nine minute networking (20 mins) Two rounds of nine minutes in threes (or fours) Talking points Thinking about your scrutiny work What’s your one best hope for digital engagement? What’s your biggest fear about digital engagement? Appreciative Interviews (20 mins) What’s something you’ve done digitally, however small, that …
ScrutinyMeetup #16: Digital engagement with scrutiny 10.00-12.00, Wednesday 19th May Whether it’s blogs, videos, social media or websites, we know that going digital can be tricky, particularly in a sensitive political environment. That’s why, when the fine scrutiny folk from Hackney Council got in touch to say they were thinking about this topic, we thought …
The fine folk at Hackney have been in touch about digital engagement. Tim Upton, Overview and Scrutiny Officer writes: Here at Hackney we are pondering how to improve digital engagement with scrutiny. We would love to hear how others are approaching this or if they they are pondering along the same lines. Here are some …
Sponsored by At this meetup we worked on the issues of work planning. We used a liberating structure called What, So What, What Next to work through a conversation in three stages. Here are the takeaways that we captured from participants in the chat at the end of each stage. Hope you find them useful! …
Sponsored by ScrutinyMeetup #15: Work planning for the win ? 2.00-4.00, Thursday 25th March This topic came top of the poll when we asked participants at the February meetup. And who doesn’t love a good scrutiny work plan? We’ll (probably) be running this meetup as a Triz – also known as the ‘anti-problem technique’, it follows …