If you set up a Powerpoint for a meeting and project it on a screen, lots of mediocre things tend to happen--not always. People reading the slides to the audience members, who are perfectly able to read the content themselves. If the discussion turns down a promising path not predicted ahead of time by the slide writer, you're stuck with a slide deck that no longer matters, and pretty good odds are that nobody's going to edit that deck on the run in the meeting. The Powerpoint's value collapses before everyone's eyes.#
In a discussion today a much more interesting path was described, using an outliner like this one, projecting on a screen, but taking live notes, revising as needed, tagging tasks with names and report-back dates maybe, and giving everyone an agreed-upon set of meeting notes at the end. Many folks would see their suggestions go up on the screen and they'd be in the take-home outline notes. There'd be buy-in from all of that. It would feel productive, respectful, hopeful.#
It was very nice to picture all of those positive traits--probably more--as this approach was described today, using outliner software. #
If you set up a Powerpoint for a meeting and project it on a screen, lots of mediocre things tend to happen--not always. People reading the slides to the audience members, who are perfectly able to read the content themselves. If the discussion turns down a promising path not predicted ahead of time by the slide writer, you're stuck with a slide deck that no longer matters, and pretty good odds are that nobody's going to edit that deck on the run in the meeting. The Powerpoint's value collapses before everyone's eyes.#
In a discussion today a much more interesting path was described, using an outliner like this one, projecting on a screen, but taking live notes, revising as needed, tagging tasks with names and report-back dates maybe, and giving everyone an agreed-upon set of meeting notes at the end. Many folks would see their suggestions go up on the screen and they'd be in the take-home outline notes. There'd be buy-in from all of that. It would feel productive, respectful, hopeful.#
It was very nice to picture all of those positive traits--probably more--as this approach was described today, using outliner software. #
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