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.
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.