Some meetings seem to go on forever and then there’s even meetings about
meetings! But have you ever stopped to think about the effectiveness of your
meetings and if you’re getting the very best out of your staff in them?
You only have to look around your next senior leadership or middle
leaders meeting and count up the amount of bodies to do a rough estimate of how
much money is being spent on wages for that specific meeting. Once you do the
rough maths it will probably scare you to death.
So, if we know the importance attached to every meeting due to the
financial implications, then we need to ensure that the face-to-face time we
have in meetings is as effective as possible. One way that we haverevolutionised our leadership meetings at Acklam Grange School is to take on aflipped learning approach by using OneNote.
Every member of the leadership team has been supplied with a Microsoft support Number support
Number Surface for use at home and school. In OneNote, we have
set up staff notebooks that have an SLT Collaboration space. A tab is created
for each weekly leadership meeting and then each item on the agenda has its own
page within the meeting tab.
As in any well-structured and well run meeting, items are added to the
agenda in advance, but in this case, leaders who have added an item must upload
their presentation slides or information documents to the specific page related
to that item on OneNote before the meeting.
“This is now an
expectation of all leaders prior to any meeting they attend and part of the
highly professional approach towards school leadership that was recognised by
Ofsted in 2016 as outstanding.”
Leaders are now fully in the picture when they enter the meeting, having
read their pre-meeting information. This means that face to face time can be so
much more productive, based on a group of people who are extremely well
informed. The secondary benefit to this flipped meeting approach is financial.
As every leader in the meeting has their own Surface tablet in front of them on
the boardroom table, there is absolutely no need to photocopy hundreds of
sheets of paper per meeting.
If you’re anything like we used to be and you were present at a results
analysis meeting or an attendance meeting then you’ll have probably left with a
whole load of graphs and information. Now times this by the amount of people in
the room and it soon starts to drive up the cost of that meeting. We’ve already
saved thousands of pounds over the past year on printing alone!
Leaders can also go back to any meeting throughout the year and quickly
access the information, presentation, or minutes directly from their tablet or
mobile device linked to OneNote, meaning they can feel empowered with that knowledge
and information wherever they are.
Gone are the days at Acklam Grange of scrabbling through filing cabinets
trying to locate an important document from a few months ago. With a couple of
clicks you can access everything you need. Information sheets and presentations
are displayed in full colour and can be zoomed in, copied and pasted or altered
at a click of a button.
“As a forward
thinking school, our innovative use of Microsoft support Number support Number
OneNote has enabled us as a leadership team to role model the effective and
efficient use of sustainable resources. As we enter into a time of uncertain
and limited funding, it is essential that we keep pushing the boundaries, but
with sustainable solutions.”
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