Meetings – Clearly Essential

Organisational Cauliflowers

14/12/2022 by Lucy Hampton

It’s a universal and little-known rule that how people participate in meetings is an example of your organisational culture. I call it the ‘Hampton Cauliflower rule’. Cauliflower’s look like complex structures until you realise that they are just many mini-cauliflowers growing off a central stem, organising and replicating themselves to make a vegetable protected in … Read more

Meetings: Organisation’s Problem Child

12/05/202110/05/2021 by Lucy Hampton

NHS. Coaching, Meeting, Leadership, Conflict

Let’s talk about Organisation’s problem child. Let’s talk about meetings. Meetings can occasionally be very good; they can even occasionally be inspirational. They can also be dull and fail to meet their potential and at their very worst they can be dysfunctional. They are often bad more often than they are good. But rather than … Read more