Transforming Meetings with the “Thinking Environment”
“The quality of everything people do depends on the quality of the thinking they do first.”
Nancy Kline
The Transforming Meetings™ model is a structured opportunity for meetings to have better output, and, often, save time. The Thinking Environment ensures people are listened to and maximises the quality of everyones thinking.
If any of the following challenges resonate with you, then Transforming Meetings™ could help:
Your team do not have opportunities to do their best thinking due to time pressures and meeting structures.
Participants can feel that their views are not listened to at times as others interrupt and jump in with their own ideas.
Participants switch off or zone out during the meeting especially in a virtual environment where the connection to colleagues and the energy of the meeting is harder to achieve.
What is Transforming Meetings™?
Transforming Meetings™ explores the building blocks of The Thinking Environment and the most appropriate ways to use them in meetings. This includes:
An introduction to the Thinking Environment
Exploring the Ten Components as a way of being
Practice using the core applications – Thinking Pairs, Rounds, Dialogue and Open Discussion
Preparing for meetings effectively
Coached meeting practice
The Time to Think Council
The programme can be run online or face to face