A Concept Model for Discussing Meetings?

Okay, so here’s an odd thing I’d like to share.

Last week at work, we were having a discussion around “How to Improve our Quarterly Partner Meetings” (yes, the same meeting mentioned in a previous post). While the initial discussion was quite fruitful, it was also all over the map. That being said, several key conversation points did rise to the top, such as…

“What topics should be presented (or not presented)?”

“What kinds of activities could we have?”

“Where else could we meet?”

and so on…

Under normal circumstances, I might be content to list these out as discussion points to structure the next conversation, when more people are involved. But, the relationships between these topics areas merited more than a simple list. That and I’m naturally a visual thinker… And a bit obsessive.

Combine all that and you get a basic concept model for discussing meetings. Or at least a meeting that exhibits the characteristics of the meeting in question.

I haven’t really ‘tested this with anything other than our quarterly partner meetings (which are off-site, have multiple speakers, activities, etc.). But… let me know if this could be useful anywhere else.