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MAKING MEETINGS MORE PRODUCTIVE AND ENJOYABLE

LoMo is an open source set of meeting formats and techniques to encourage self-responsibility, speed, clarity and powerful decisions in meetings. LoMo was conceived by serial entrepreneur Carrie Bedingfield, and the name is short for ‘Low Tech Moments’. I worked as part of the working group in the early prototyping stage to improve both the materials and the principles underlying them.

Image of text stating: The world is changing. Meetings haven't (yet)
Summary of the thinking that fed into the design and development of the LoMo meetings framework, from one of the early LoMo slide decks

SUMMARY

  • Contributing to the LoMo working group, committing to take the principles and approaches and use them in real meetings
  • Providing constructive feedback to the working group to help improve and iterate the tools
  • Generating ideas to iterate improved tools during creative, virtual working sessions

TEAM: Carrie Bedingfield, leading the LoMo working group

WHEN: 2016-17

RESULT: A refined set of principles and tools based on actual use in real meetings

WHERE LOMO BEGAN

LoMo is short for “Lo-fi moments”. As part of the working group, I tested out early meeting ‘canvases’ and fed back on their use and value.

Meetings are everywhere – happening all the time (probably), using up a lot of time, and not always delivering on their promises. They take too long, drain a team’s energy, and are unproductive. LoMo was conceived by serial entrepreneur Carrie Bedingfield to bring meeting methodology into the 21st Century.

I first met Carrie when a non-profit I co-founded, The You Can Hub, was brought to her attention. Carrie led an incubator for businesses interested in being for-profit and for-purpose, called 50th Generation. You Can Hub was one of the founding members of the first cohort. I learned a great deal about design thinking, culture-first business development, and lean approaches. I went on to mentor later cohorts in the 50th Generation incubator and, as an alumni, I was invited to help Carrie develop the LoMo concept as part of the working group.

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WHAT HAPPENED NEXT

LoMo is an open source methodology to help make meetings more productive using a small set of canvases. The canvases use lightweight structure to keep meetings on track – enabling speed, clarity, and shared responsibility. Carrie has now evolved LoMo into FewerFasterBolder, and you can find out more about that here.

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