http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: How to hold a walking meeting en Tue, 19 May 2026 16:24:28 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462&page=2#post-302207 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 15:50:28 +0000 ARobComp 302207@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Crowriver. That's how I tend to do business... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462&page=2#post-302149 Tue, 26 Feb 2019 17:07:21 +0000 gembo 302149@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Went for nosey to Parliament Hall today and was given a. A booklet and b. 2 butterscotch sweeties (not werther originals but similar) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462&page=2#post-302141 Tue, 26 Feb 2019 14:24:23 +0000 crowriver 302141@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ARobComp, your description reminded me of this scene from Brazil:</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSY1VnNUJzQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSY1VnNUJzQ</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462&page=2#post-302139 Tue, 26 Feb 2019 13:35:46 +0000 acsimpson 302139@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>"fell asleep in the kitchen space next to the walking track and woke up as he circled past"</em></p> <p>Did you find out how many laps you had slept through? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462&page=2#post-302105 Tue, 26 Feb 2019 09:50:24 +0000 chdot 302105@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“We all know that important meetings don't have minutes.“</p> <p>Depends. </p> <p>Was recently in a meeting of three. </p> <p>Two of us have very clear recollections of what was agreed. </p> <p>Third person talked to fourth person (as agreed by the three) then agreed with fourth person on a course of action that (first) meeting was held to prevent!</p> <p>Second person regrets not doing a brief minute of ‘understanding’. </p> <p>Beware what you wish to not minute. </p> <p>Meeting involved bicycles in a peripheral way. </p> <p>Meeting involved hot beverages in a public place, but a walking meeting would probably not have had a different outcome. </p> <p>Person who produces minutes can have a powerful effect on outcomes by accurate, or inaccurate reporting or by omission of key details. </p> <p>Unless blatant, these rarely get corrected... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462&page=2#post-302103 Tue, 26 Feb 2019 09:01:13 +0000 I were right about that saddle 302103@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Surely the point of a walking meeting is to avoid minutes? We all know that important meetings don't have minutes. Minuted meetings are theatre or mistakes.</p> <p>Cometh the hour cometh the shady cabal. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462#post-302101 Tue, 26 Feb 2019 08:52:17 +0000 ARobComp 302101@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>When I was out at my ex-company HQ in San Francisco for a while a very famous, maybe infamous, CEO at the time would pace almost constantly around the main floor having walking meetings with senior execs. It was his exercise I believe. The floor had a specific walking track built in that covered about 1km I think. </p> <p>He would pick up team leads as he went (we worked in a very horizontal structure so most issues had one specific lead you could grab to find out what was happening), pick their brains for a few laps and then drop them back off. </p> <p>It was quite motivating to know the CEO could walk past your workspace at any time. Unfortunately at one point I was very jet lagged and fell asleep in the kitchen space next to the walking track and woke up as he circled past, so hopefully he thought I'd just been working <strong>REALLY</strong> hard. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462#post-302089 Mon, 25 Feb 2019 20:48:02 +0000 Greenroofer 302089@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Frenchy - yes, you definitely need to pace yourself with these things. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462#post-302087 Mon, 25 Feb 2019 20:42:01 +0000 Frenchy 302087@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's certainly a trickier process than for a normal meeting, but there are a number of potential solutions. I think the main point is to just take your time, not rush, and make sure you do things step-by-step. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462#post-302083 Mon, 25 Feb 2019 19:45:42 +0000 gembo 302083@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Shakily? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462#post-302065 Mon, 25 Feb 2019 16:27:23 +0000 Cyclingmollie 302065@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>How would you take minutes on a walking meeting? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462#post-301954 Fri, 22 Feb 2019 21:15:05 +0000 Greenroofer 301954@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@LivD - Thank you. As always, someone on CCE has the answer! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462#post-301953 Fri, 22 Feb 2019 20:29:17 +0000 gembo 301953@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmmm, were costly roof repairs maybe not a risk factor? Causing amnesia and forgetful lack of checking ness? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462#post-301914 Fri, 22 Feb 2019 13:30:12 +0000 acsimpson 301914@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>For those who didn't know the history of Parliament Hall. It used to be council property until they gave it away because they forgot to check.</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/historic-landmark-lost-by-council-blunder-1-3691381">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/historic-landmark-lost-by-council-blunder-1-3691381</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462#post-301870 Thu, 21 Feb 2019 23:56:01 +0000 crowriver 301870@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Parliament Hall (part of the Courts complex)"</p> <p>I visited the place some twenty years ago. Very impressive ceiling. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462#post-301859 Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:34:28 +0000 LivM 301859@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@greenroofer it's Parliament Hall (part of the Courts complex).<br /> <a href="https://www.scotsmagazine.com/articles/z-secret-edinburgh-parliament-hall/" rel="nofollow">https://www.scotsmagazine.com/articles/z-secret-edinburgh-parliament-hall/</a><br /> Advocates and Solicitors walk up and down (generally quite briskly) and avoid being eavesdropped. Used to meet my mum there while she was Practising. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462#post-301858 Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:25:18 +0000 gembo 301858@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>As a young barman in the doublet bar of kelvinbridge I regaled the regular Topers at closing time with Please go up the frog and toad to your dog and bones and climb the wooden hill to Bedfordshire and whilst you are at it Do your talking whilst you're walking. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462#post-301851 Thu, 21 Feb 2019 18:09:00 +0000 Greenroofer 301851@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@acsimpson - it could well be the Faculty of Advocates. I did have a feeling it was in Scotland... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462#post-301835 Thu, 21 Feb 2019 13:51:34 +0000 acsimpson 301835@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Greenroofer. I seem to remember visiting such a place a school pupil. Could it be the faculty of advocates?</p> <p>Of course it may be regular practice in more than one location. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462#post-301815 Thu, 21 Feb 2019 10:31:07 +0000 crowriver 301815@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@IWRATS, @fimm, maybe I have this habit of "walk and talk" due to being an ex-smoker. Hadn't really occurred to me, as I gave up many years ago. Now it makes sense: going for a smoke was often an excuse for a chat or indeed a meeting.</p> <p>@Greenroofer, does depend what you're discussing at the moment when the third party overhears the conversation, but yes it would be fragmentary eavesdropping. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462#post-301809 Thu, 21 Feb 2019 09:59:08 +0000 fimm 301809@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>One of the two more senior people in my team smokes. He and the other more senior person fequently go for a walk and talk while the smoker has a smoke: to the extent that one can say<br /> "Where's A?" (the non-smoker)<br /> "He's in B's office" (i.e. A and B have gone for a walk and talk while B has his fag.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462#post-301802 Thu, 21 Feb 2019 09:10:50 +0000 I were right about that saddle 301802@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I actually long to have a substantive meeting while circulating the national Portrait Gallery's ambulatory. That's what it was designed for after all. I regularly trick people into going there but they get suspicious after two circuits tops. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462#post-301800 Thu, 21 Feb 2019 09:06:45 +0000 Greenroofer 301800@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@crowriver - the confidentiality thing is interesting. I seem to recall that there's a special feature somewhere in the High Court (not sure if England or Scotland) that is basically a long corridor where solicitors brief barristers while walking up and down. They do this because, while it's possible to hear snatches of a conversation in this situation, it is impossible to hear the whole thing without obviously following someone. Walking and talking is the best way to have a confidential conversation in a public space. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462#post-301799 Thu, 21 Feb 2019 08:56:38 +0000 I were right about that saddle 301799@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Presumably back in the day one would have smoking meetings. Let us pack our pipes with fine shag and stroll in the atrium! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462#post-301798 Thu, 21 Feb 2019 01:03:39 +0000 crowriver 301798@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo, I've been doing this for years, but tends to be one-to-one or a small group. </p> <p>If say I come across a colleague in a corridor, rather than stand there like lemons I'll often say "shall we walk and talk"? Helps if you're both going the same way of course. Also a handy way of having a post-sitting down meeting after/side meeting to discuss a few matters of unfinished business.</p> <p>Problems can be: privacy/confidentiality; also lack of time before other person needs to go in a different direction. So can become a standing/hovering meeting in the final round. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462#post-301795 Wed, 20 Feb 2019 23:43:08 +0000 I were right about that saddle 301795@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>b-side of into the valley</em></p> <p>Possibly another totemic CCE object, like P.V. Globb's <em>The Bog People</em>?</p> <p>I have worked in an office where sitting meetings were considered too physically taxing and the walk between parking space and desk was a matter of burning concern. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462#post-301794 Wed, 20 Feb 2019 23:33:28 +0000 gembo 301794@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Favoured by Steve Jobs, Sigmund Freud and Aristotle according to the Guardian article I read. Bizarre. Though more sensibly works for brainstorming but not for converging on a consensus, making a decision etc </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462#post-301786 Wed, 20 Feb 2019 22:14:55 +0000 chdot 301786@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Someone I know says -</p> <p>“</p> <p>I’ve had educational talk-and-Walk Sessions. Can be successful. People have actually studied how effective it is. Some people concentrate better when they are moving, others get distracted. Over all research says less effective than being still in a room. But I think can work well one to one or very small group. For learning that is. Not sure if research is generalisable to other types of meeting.</p> <p>“ </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462#post-301780 Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:48:06 +0000 minus six 301780@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>following the derive of guy debord, you'd want to navigate the old town of edinburgh solely using say, a map of tangier</p> <p>challenging topics arising from efforts toward establishing the precise location of the medina / souk etc might develop from there</p> <p><img src="http://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljm9s53Wh11qbwkn2o1_400.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19462#post-301779 Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:39:03 +0000 gembo 301779@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@sallyhinch, yes I think you are right. Would want my money back if there was not a walk involved. But what if it rains? Will post detAils.</p> <p>What topics might come up?</p> <p>Avoiding blisters?<br /> Disabilities?<br /> Anoraks? </p>