One Workplace team meeting - roles, responsibilities & results

In a glasshouse type setting last Monday afternoon, as temperatures soared to the high twenties, some 200 Workplace team members came together in Television Centre's Showstoppers to hear from the BBC's COO Caroline Thomson and to discuss the year ahead.

We set the theme for the afternoon around Roles, Responsibilities and Results, and spent a few hours hearing about the future direction of the BBC and discussing what went well last year and what we need to do to achieve an even better result for 2010.

Although it got pretty hot we had a productive session. The feedback is still being analysed, but for me, I thought that it was good for the wider group to hear about the BBC Strategy review from Caroline Thomson. I felt very proud for the group to hear her praise for our efforts during the last year.

I realise that for some it may have appeared more of the same and that there was a lot of telling going on. If you feel like that it would be good to chat to see how we can do something different. As I said at the time I don't have all the answers.

Pictured below: l-r Grant Walford, Chris Kane and Pete Mathieson; Caroline Thomson.