About that meeting you were in that just didn't make sense...🤯

We're familiar with the dull meeting, droning on, not achieving anything. But just as frustrating is the meeting that's a messy, confusing and complicated sh*t storm. Things are tricky, frustrating, perhaps complex. All those different views and ideas!

How do you find your way out of it all towards a conclusion or outcome? This is the everyday struggle of the 'meeting that doesn’t make sense.' It’s grossly inefficient to all sit around a table and try to talk through everything on the agenda.

That's a big ask of words alone.

I’ve posted previously on 'sensemaking'; how we understand the deeper meaning of what’s going on. Well there’s 'Collective Sensemaking' too: how we work things out as a group, team, project ... together, collectively.

A team trying to work out what the heck is happening, planning for an uncertain future under changing conditions, would do well to know not just how to make sense individually, alone ... but how to make sense collectively, together.