Ep 13 Running the Room
You can have the best-prepared agenda in the world and still have a terrible meeting if nobody’s running the room well. This episode covers the Chair’s real job — drawing out the quiet voices, redirecting the loud ones, and making sure every decision is properly made and properly recorded…
Ep 12 Before You Sit Down
All the good governance in the world only comes to life if your meetings work — and the work that makes a meeting run well happens days before anyone walks in the room. The first episode of the Smarter Meetings series covers everything that needs to happen before you sit down.
Ep 11 Bastille Day Special
It’s Bastille Day, Kate M is live from Central France, and the Kates have found history’s best case study in governance failure. The French Revolution turns out to be surprisingly instructive. The governance content is completely serious. The framing is decidedly not. Madame La Guillotine is not an approved governance tool…
Ep 10 Your Questions Answered!
Biased minutes. A chair who’s ignoring a committee decision he disagrees with. A treasurer who resigned with no notice and took everything with them. These are real questions from real committee members — and in this first Your Questions Answered special, Kate H and Kate M work through eleven of them. Practical answers, no jargon, and the occasional Iced Vovo…
Ep 9 Who Can Do What?
One subcommittee signs a two-year venue contract the committee never authorised. Another finds the perfect venue, waits for committee approval, and loses it to someone who moved faster. Both stories end badly — and both have the same cause: nobody wrote down who was allowed to do what. The Kates show why a delegations register is one of the most useful documents any committee can have.
Ep 8 Many Hands Make Light Work
Seven people trying to run every aspect of their organisation by themselves. Long meetings. Burnout setting in. And meanwhile, a significant chunk of the membership has never once been asked to contribute. In this episode, Kate H and Kate M introduce three practical structures that help a small committee do the work of a much larger one…