Mornington Crescent: The Taunton variation

An elegant form of the game dating back to the 16th century, with parish records revealing effervescent tournaments between ecclesiastical and civil parish leaders. There are several obvious variations from the standard game: motions from the floor are only allowed after Swiss Cottage has been played; a slow player may be declared Co-opted by the player to his/her left and release shall require a written request to resume play that is resolved by secret ballot of the remaining players; Anyone Tooting Upminster is disqualified. [All views expressed in this blog site are personal and are not intended to represent the views of any people, institutions or organisations that I may or may not be associated with in a personal or professional capacity!]

Notes from the larger Councils’ Clerks workshop 7th April 2022

As covered in my previous blogs on this site ‘Walking in each others moccasins: a creative collaboration workshop to solve wicked problems in the Local Council sector‘ and ‘It takes all sorts! Thoughts on the diversity of personalities in Local Council leadership…‘, a group of Chief Officers/Clerks from larger Town Councils met in London on 7th April 2022 to discuss some of the professional and personal challenges that we are facing.

The facilitated workshop was supported by SLCC and kindly sponsored by CCLA, and was very much colleague-driven.  Its primary intended outcome was to deliver a series of ‘problem statements’ (as part of the ‘Stanford Design Process‘ methodology) that capture some of the more pressing issues that we want to address as senior officers in our sector.

The report available on this link provides a summary of the output from the workshop and is intended to feed into ongoing  work on this subject in coming months.

working together on tricky issues
lots of great ideas shared
getting stuck in to some challenges
active collaboration and co-working, no sign of a powerpoint presentation here!

I’ve listed the problem statements identified by the group in the poll below…please take 5 minutes to read through them. What do you think? Which do you feel are the most important? Let me know by picking your ‘top three’ problem statements from the list below.

Please also feel free to comment on this blog post, it’s really useful to get a debate going on some of these issues!

Ian M

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One response to “Notes from the larger Councils’ Clerks workshop 7th April 2022”

  1. Ah, so THAT’s the problem?! notes from the SLCC Management In Action conference, Kennilworth, June 2022 – Mornington Crescent: The Taunton variation

    […] workshop was intended to update colleagues on progress made atthe 7th April ’22 ‘Supporting Local Council Clerks’ workshop in London andto test the ‘problem statements’ that emerged from that […]

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