Re: Meeting strategies--check-out/Check in | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Nancy Wight (wightwal.hp.com) | |
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 94 15:05 CDT |
Rob Sandelin <robsan [at] microsoft.com> wrote: check in and check out are EQUALLY as important as the business of the meeting, and sometimes, more so. When the people in the group know and trust each other, feel secure and part of the group, the business is usually free from distractions. -------------------------------------------------------------- In a perfect world, yes, I would agree with you. But the cohousing development world is far from perfect, and I think you have to set priorities depending upon what is going on at the time. For example, last night we had our regularly scheduled large group meeting. The agenda was for our architect to review a revised site plan (already approved by the design committee), get comments and hopefully approval. We are under extreme time pressure right now because of the summer schedule of the planning board in town, and we must get the new fully engineered site plan to them by June 20, or risk seriously jeopardizing the entire project. We have engineers working on it this weekend - we *had* to make a decision. At the meeting, we had a check-in, but at 10:00 we were still not finished and people were starting to get frustrated and tired, and began to leave. Sure, it would have been great to have a check out at that point. But many of us live more than 1/2 hour away from the meeting space and it just wasn't practical. Even though we may have hurt ourselves in the long run by not having a check out, the *business* of that meeting was more important than anything else at the moment. At other times, when we're not under such a crunch, we do manage to have both check-in and check out, but we have to remain realistic and flexible, and "go with the flow" of what is happening. - Nancy -- New View Neighborhood Development, Acton, MA
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