Consultation event - let's go to the pub

Another consultation event in the Norcroft - this time for parts of Corporate Services. The University cannot be faulted for consulting a lot more in the last 6 months - however, there is a risk that the consultation is not deep enough or engaging enough with so many people and with limited amount of time for interaction - always tricky to find a good balance. At least the tech worked in the room today as it had been fixed by colleagues last week, and the handheld voting machines actually worked quite well and were fun if you like that sort of thing. Our current draft vision(s) are rather un-inspiring for me and not as clear as one of our speakers who was pictured pointing at a place in the distance with a strapline which said (I paraphrase) - see you at the pub at lunchtime. This is the absolute definition of a great vision!! (a) it's the pub, (b) I can visualise a pub , and a pint of real ale and a roaring fire (c) There is a clear time when we need to be there, and there is absolutely no mention of the nitty gritty about how we get there. What our vision(s) currently says is at best woolly and unclear. At conference last week Robin Seiger told delegates that we need clarity of outcome - define purpose cleary and explicitly. That's what we really need - maybe we should just all go to the pub at lunchtime and think about it.