tCI Coffee Mornings
Consultation and engagement is often a job of one. You carry the legal risk, the political pressure and the methodological calls, and you are frequently the only person in your organisation who does this work. The Coffee Morning puts you in a room with people who do the same job, every Thursday, for an hour.
Explore and find out more…
Join the conversation every Thursday — one hour, one topic, and a room full of people from across the public sector. It’s free to attend.
THE PROBLEM WE BUILT THIS AROUND
Most practitioners work without a peer group
The questions that decide whether a process holds up rarely have a colleague down the corridor who has faced the same thing. When engagement can stand in for formal consultation. How to evidence that you reached the people a proposal affects. How to defend a decision that a campaign group is preparing to challenge.
The Coffee Morning closes that gap. Each week takes one live issue and opens it up, so you can test your thinking against people who are working through the same problems in their own organisations.
THE FORMAT
One Hour, One Topic, Every Thursday
A tCI Fellow or an invited specialist opens the subject, then the floor is yours.
One topic a week, chosen for what practitioners are dealing with now.
Opened by a tCI Fellow or a specialist guest speaker
Open discussion, not a lecture
Live only and never recorded, so people speak freely about real cases
Free to attend, on Microsoft Teams
SIGNALS THAT MATTER
The clearest measure of value is whether people return
People keep a recurring slot in a full diary only when it earns its place. This one does.
They came back
Just over half of all of the attendees have joined two or more sessions.
A door to tCI
Nine in ten registrants came to us as newcomers, discovering tCI for the first time.
Far beyond one team
People from more than 130 different organisations have joined us since February.
WHO ATTENDS
The people who lead consultation usually own its risk
Carrying statutory involvement duties under sections 13Q and 14Z2, where a weak process can be referred by a scrutiny committee or tested through judicial review.
Running contentious service change, devolution or planning consultations under public and political scrutiny.
Working through Community Risk Management Plans and governance change in politically sensitive settings.
Working with local authorities and mayors on Police and Crime Plans and governance change in politically sensitive settings.
Working through statutory consultation on major infrastructure and network change in politically sensitive settings.
We’ve got the kettle on
