Meetup notes: Supporting scrutiny councillors to succeed

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, …

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Meetup notes and video: The secrets of parliamentary scrutiny

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 …

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Sign up for meetup #17: The secrets of parliamentary scrutiny

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 …

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Meetup notes: Work planning for the win

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! …

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Sign up now for scrutinymeetup #15: Work planning for the win ?

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 …

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