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 …
Sponsored by ScrutinyMeetup #14: What are we gonna do with our annual report? 10.00- 12.00, Wednesday 24th February We thought annual reports would be a really good topic after we were contacted by Catherine Buckley at Knowsley. It is, of course, that time of the year when scrutiny officers are trawling the internet, looking for …
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 …
Here are the instructions for meetup #12 – design your perfect scrutiny officer. We publish these for participants to refer to during the meetups. Nine Minute Networking Two rounds of nine minutes in threes (or fours) Talking points: What’s something you like about the meetups? What’s something you might change? What might be a good …
Sponsored by ScrutinyMeetup #12: Design your perfect scrutiny officer 14.00- 16.00, 26th November 2020 Following a suggestion from one of our participants, this meetup will be looking at the qualities needed to be a super scrutiny officer. As you know, this role has many different dimensions. At different times you might be have to be …
This meetup was all about how to demonstrate the effectiveness of scrutiny. We tried a new liberating structure called Triz. And we tried using Google Jamboards for the group work for the first time. Both worked really well. Hooray! We also had a tenuous disaster movie theme. Matt likes to call Triz ‘Twister’, so that …
Nine minute networking Two rounds of nine minutes in threes (or fours) Talking points: What’s a piece of feedback you have been pleased about? How did you find out about something your organisation has done well? Triz (40 mins) The ‘Theory of Solving Ingenious Problems’ Also known as the ‘anti-problem technique’, sometimes identifying ways to …