Idea follow-up: Chairs Training

[jorydotcom]

At our meeting today, we discussed introducing a training session for chairs at the next Chairs Meeting (during TPAC). We talked about:

• Offering something specific to chairs to get their feedback on - e.g. "In December we are offering a 60 minute webinar on de-escalation techniques"
• Encouraging anyone who would like to attend, whether they are a chair or not
• Providing specific resources for chairs or W3C members to review/consume related to the session.
  (if I didn't quite capture the group's intent there, let me know)

I've had a couple of conversations with @TzviyaSiegman & Judy Brewer about offering a chairs training on something like "Leading Effective Meetings" - I think this would be a fairly non-controversial offering, but also very beneficial to the decorum of our working groups. There are also ample resources we can leverage, and wouldn't require us to have all the answers figured out for our response protocols. We could assess how the session went, and use learning from that to develop a training program for the chairs' role in our reporting process.

Thoughts?

[TzviyaSiegman]

+1. Many chairs and other leaders (AB, AC, editors) have expressed interest in such training. I expect significant turnout. The topic "leading effective meetings" sounds rather vague. I do like the idea of offering a session on de-escalation techniques. I believe this comes up in every single WG.

[nigelmegitt]

chairs training on something like "Leading Effective Meetings"

That's not what I had in mind, though it may be useful. Rather, I was envisaging "Dealing with difficult or inappropriate behaviour" or something like that.

[jorydotcom]

Happy to start with 'de-escalation' or similar; just thought I'd throw the other out as a possibly useful option as well. Whatever the chairs would find most helpful!

[kimdhamilton]

The CCG chairs would be very interested in this

[RachelComerford]

Would this be open to CGs as well? (I hope yes?)

[TzviyaSiegman]

@RachelComerford I think we are hoping this up to all interested parties.

[jorydotcom]

the more the merrier, in my opinion!

[jorydotcom]

Recording action item from today's meeting: Jory to create suggested de-escalation curricula for discussion at next meeting (with resource links)

[jorydotcom]

Hello all,

I've taken a pass at a draft curricula for a possible workshop at TPAC. You can view that as a gist here. I'm thinking it makes sense to provide feedback on the learning objectives etc. there, and we can discuss the broader topic, logistics, direction etc. on this thread, but lmk if you think it makes more sense to file that as an issue on this repo instead of the gist.

The model is from the Conflict Analysis Tools paper, pages 6-7. There are supplemental links on the gist.