{"id":16067,"date":"2024-10-07T16:54:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T23:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/meetings-that-matter-as-microcosms\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T16:54:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T23:54:36","slug":"meetings-that-matter-as-microcosms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/meetings-that-matter-as-microcosms\/","title":{"rendered":"Meetings that matter as microcosms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennesonwoolf.com\/remembering-roots-growing-shoots\/\">Tenneson<\/a>, Caitlin and I are running a three day leadership course for MacEwan University here in Edmonton. It starts tomorrow and we are having a great conversation at Remedy chai cafe about why meetings matter for folks studying leadership. Here are some of the insights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meetings are microcosms for leadership practice. They are places to encounter one\u2019s own leadership gifts and leadership challenges. What you learn when you host a meeting is very much related to how you lead a team or and organization or a board. Meetings are a place to confront what\u2019s real and meaningful. They contain all of the patterns the give life or deplete it in organizations. They are places of immediate practice because they can be places of both pain and healing and so they demand attention and consideration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are after teaching how to host conversations that matter. \u201cMatter\u201d because they more things matter to people the more engaged people are in the work. The number one question I get asked about is \u201chow to I get people to engage?\u201d And the answer is \u201cmake the work meaningful to them.\u201d If your work is less meaningful than what folks have going on in the rest of their lives they won\u2019t engage. Sometimes you don\u2019t get to work with everyone you want to. But start with those who see why the work matters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want good effort to be sustained you need to build connection between people and connection to the work. Sustainability requires connection. Stewardship (or good governance) requires a long term and generative relationship to what is being cared for: people, work, place\u2026Once you know that your future and wellbeing is tied up in the sustainability and health of the people and work and places that sustain you, sustainability and stewardship becomes a way of being. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What needs time in a meeting? Einstein\u2019s famous quite about using 55 minutes of a hour to come up with the right question is good. But I might use that time to build resilient relationships instead. Because then if we don\u2019t figure out the question, or the answer, we will at least have to commitment to keep looking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Pssst. You can build resilience while you are finding the question, by the way).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my teachers Birgitt Williams teaches that there is always grief in the room. To which I would add \u201cthere is always trauma and always inequity in the room too.\u201d And so hosting rooms is also a space to host restoration and repair and dignity. It\u2019s not therapy. It\u2019s not even healing, per se. It\u2019s just leaving things better than you found them, as much as possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be thoughtful in how you host, even if it\u2019s a short conversation. The absence of design is a kind of design choice. It often defaults to \u201cthe way we always do things\u201d and that isn\u2019t always a good thing. So be thoughtful. Add something slightly different. 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