Taking Over the Reins

On Wednesday, fellow YAT member Humza and I bravely took up the task of co-chairing the first team-member let YAT meeting.

I'm sure Humza will be along fairly soon to have his say, but personally I felt that we did an OK job!

Things started off quietly, and I did feel a little self-concious to begin with, having everyone looking at us. However, it wasn't long before the meeting began to flow as smoothly as usual.

We had an agenda to stick to, and we did our best to work around missing members. I would have said that I was surprised at how willing everyone appeared to be to be led by two of their peers, but actually it just fitted in with the respect for each other that we have all come to expect from being part of this team anyway.

We managed to cover everything on the agenda (although here's a tip for future chairs: make your agenda as detailed as you can - one or two items that I'd typed up at the weekend required some brain-racking to try and remember exactly what it was I'd wanted to be discussed!) and everyone stuck to our code-of-conduct by waiting their turn to speak and by letting everyone have their say, perhaps a little more than they usually do when the grown-ups are running it! (Although I think that was more because they were going easy on us as it was our first time!)

All-in-all, it was a good experience and I look forward to improving my chairing skills when I get opportunities in the future.

Good luck to next week's chairpersons!