One Team Gov virtual — March 2026
Notes from our most recent virtual meetup
At One Team Gov one of our founding principles is to work in the open, so this post outlines some of the key themes discussed in our most recent session. We hope it helps if you are thinking about attending.
We hold one monthly London breakfast meetup and one virtual meetup each month, to find out more and to sign up visit Luma: https://luma.com/oneteamgov?k=c — if you have ideas to help us better publicise these events please reach out — thank you!
Key info
Sign ups: 11
Attendees: 4
Organisations: GDS and beyond
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Tools: Slido, Teams
Themes
Very occasionally we may not elaborate on certain themes
- How to run effective meetings?
This conversation covered ‘meeting hygiene’ (an clear agenda, being on time, asking about inclusion support) but also about timings (making space to reset between meetings, or enabling 5 minutes at the beginning of a meeting to let everyone decompress and get ready to work).
- What isn’t easy to do within / between departments that may be easier or possible with some external assistance?
This question came from someone outside of government who offers training and free resources to support work, they advised they felt it was becoming more difficult to be helpful and support teams from outside of the civil service.
- How to avoid duplicating things going on in other teams / organisations?
A wide ranging conversation talking about the benefits and challenges of people undertaking similar activities across government departments. This included acknowledgement that actually it can be a culturally good thing that people are taking and learning things and delivering them locally, but also acknowledged the potential ‘noisiness’ that this creates or difficulties in identifying exemplary work or work that can feed into bigger programmes.
Thanks for reading!
