Odd, still works for me
Maybe because you were in the meeting whilst I wasn’t.
I too was very pleased to hear that attitude when it was said. I missed the initial context of why it came up, but I was snapped out of whatever was distracting me at the sound of those words, followed up with:
I’ve got no preconception. Speaking to anybody, I would rather someone get in contact with me on Teams give me the feedback or feed it back into the loop because you’ve all got such incredible backgrounds in your primary duties. It would be really naïve of me to turn around and say no
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To be fair whatever night it happens some will be unable make it, hence the request to rotate the days is probably the best compromise. At least there are recordings afterwards so people and catch up or rewatch. Also good to see lots of +ve comments on here.
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That could be it I guess. Though I wasn’t in the CAC meeting and managed to watch that one on Streams. Don’t know, it was mainly just the introduction and Jill talking about herself anyway so it’s not too much of a loss to miss the preamble.
This is pretty incredible to see… I’m hoping that attitude filters down through HQAC and senior CFAV more broadly.
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Catching up through these comments and it’s nice to see that there’s a reason to be cheerful after a town hall - and all it took was a little bit of respect and understanding from up on high.
Hopefully this marks the turning of a corner. There are definitely some senior bods who could do with taking a lesson from Jill’s book.
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Watched the recording and was pleasantly surprised, especially the write-up which summarised all the key points, Q&As. More of this please!
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Only 200 people in tonight’s meeting! Given the topic of communication, I’d thought there would be many more.
I’ll catch up on the recording, I find finishing work at 6 and then cooking dinner disappearing again for cadet stuff doesn’t go down well with OC Home
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It’s so far very good. Ken’s a good presenter, and certainly acknowledges we’re not where we could be, and there’s lots to improve. But also acknowledging there is lots that is working too.
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Flashbacks to “next slide please” during the Government COVID briefings 
Bit of a drier and less glamourous topic tonight, but I thought it was good. More progress being made and developments coming down the line.
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100% agree. It’s not a topic to get as excited about compared to the training stuff, but is just as important, if not more. Thought it was well presented. It wasn’t information dense, which is good in my eyes. Easy to process. And the answering of questions was great again.
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Although ok for some the last 3 have all clashed with our parade evenings. The recordings are a lot easier, to catch up on.
As above.
So below.
Me too; declined the meeting with the comment “every townhall so far has been on a parade evening. I am here to deliver the cadet experience so, if you wish more CFAV to take part, please alternate the evenings as discussed”
We don’t have enough staff to have someone take time away from cadets to join these - maybe units with plenty of staff can.
It would help if they flagged the topics a lot further out though, so the Training Off could have gone to the training one and the media bod (me) yesterday’s rather than teaching a junior cadet lesson!
They have been flagged about a week in advance so far. I’ve had the Teams invite with what the meeting is about at least.
However, as was part of the brief last night, the format will be changing going forward, and it looks great to be honest. The whole powerpoint and meeting is here but just to highlight this slide:
As per what Ken said, this isn’t set in stone yet.
But the idea being regular written briefs from a strategic/pillar overview. Circa monthly. Then Townhalls that are longer but less frequent, hosted by AOC/Comdt/COSs etc etc.
Clearly feedback is being listened too, which is nice!
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