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 …
Sponsored by: We thoroughly enjoyed our annual report themed meetup and thank you to the 50 participants. Special thank yous of course to the three fishes who took part in the excellent fishbowl conversation; Catherine, Camilla and Julia. Please watch the video and check out the poll results and notes. Plenty to give you inspiration …
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Sponsored by Meetup #13 This meetup on 19th January was Open Space so participants got to pick the topics and choose which breakout rooms they went to. It’s actually a very nice way to see what scrutineers are thinking about right now. We had lots of fun before the meeting talking about tic doc memes …
Sponsored by ScrutinyMeetup #13: You choose the topics 14.00- 16.00, 19th January 2021 No theme this time. Following a suggestion from a couple of our participants, this meetup will be ‘open space’ – we will give you the chance to choose the topics for the breakout rooms and then decide which breakout rooms you go …
This is a guest post from Catherine Buckley at Knowlsey Council. Thanks Catherine! Each year we all complete an annual report. Generally speaking they cover the work of the function over the past year, edited highlights, perhaps a bit of impact, feedback/insight and maybe some information on where scrutiny has added value or what …
At this scrutinymeetup we did two things – an informal review to help us plan ahead and a longer activity looking at the strengths we might associate with the perfect scrutiny officer. Also we had a tenuous robot theme for some reason or other. Review of the meetups Here are people’s thoughts on the meetups …