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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Yup a week’s not far enough out for us to plan - but if the THs are less frequent it will be less of an issue.
The whole forum seems quieter of late. Is the provision of regular information from these town halls having the effect of killing mis/disinformation and speculation?
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Half term & camps? For some areas anyway
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It’s not just this week. Since the Comms improved, people have had much less to whine about it seems, although, the levels of bad news about activities may also be killing enthusiasm even more?
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Too busy to stir the pot.
Workload drops in a couple of weeks then ill be riding the dont be an idiot…email from the gods wave again.
Plus someone left…
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Timezones can make it seem that way, but I’ll make sure to redouble my efforts going forwards so normal service can resume.