Victoria Watlington
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first heard Sep 2023
last heard 17 Aug
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Good afternoon.
How would you ensure meetings are efficient while still allowing robust debate and discussion?
That's a great question.
Thank you for the question, Councilmember Mayo.
I think over the years what I've been able to demonstrate in leadership across public, private, and nonprofit sectors is just someone who is an active listener, but also a leader and a facilitator.
So I've been able to govern in rooms
be a strong facilitator, be someone who is really a parliamentarian who says, OK, we've got a process, we're going to stick to our process, and we're going to drive that process forward to deliver results for the people that we're delivering them for.
And so when I think about effective meeting facilitation, it's not just about the meeting itself.
It's about, again, relationships, trust, and transparency.
It's about collaboration and building consensus.
That's how I've shown up in our community to work with residents, to work with different leaders, and it's how I would want to show up with each of you if given the honor of working with you in that way because that's the way that we advance things with the priorities that have been set up.
That's the way we advance them in a way that's best for our residents because, again, everybody wants us to succeed here.
Strong trust and transparency, allowing for discussion and dialogue to take place before you arrive at a meeting so that there's some galvanizing and some rapport and some consensus and some trust.
around what we can do together.
Those are just really active listening and facilitation, building consent.
Those are just core tenants of governing well and continuing to lead to meet the moment.
I'll say that it's been quite some time since I finished this program, but going back to even serve on the board at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Government, we train local leaders to be effective.
And so that was an important part of my own professional journey and allowed me to learn ways to listen and learn and lead, but also now being a part of helping to train other municipal leaders to lead effectively.
Those are the things that I've continued to do throughout my career, and it's what I'd want to bring to meeting facilitation and to helping to galvanize this group as we contend with the issues of the day to support our city.
Thank you and welcome.
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