Checking in on the Experiment
I just started re-reading How to Change the World , and was reminded that part of the cycle is "check." I planned my brown bag series, I did the sessions -- three times now -- so what's happened? Nothing. Attendance is non-zero, but there doesn't seem to be any particular level of interest, either. Although managers have indicated that they are interested in attending every time, they have not actually done so for any of the three sessions so. No follow-ups have been generated. The next session on the schedule is a challenging topic: Improv games. This won't work if just a few people show up. Since one of my colleagues is leaving, there's an excellent chance of only one person showing up. I've tried to head this off by asking for volunteers up-front to work on it, and gotten no response. So I'm feeling a bit discouraged about this effort, and also am pondering what I could do to be more effective. I suspect that the answer is "do more marke