A checklist to see whether you can incorporate RAMA into your regular meetings:
The more "Yes" answers you have, the more it's worth incorporating.
- 1: Speaking time is skewed toward a few people, and you feel the discussion/experience quality isn't great
- y | n
- 2: There are multiple members who seem like they want to say something but hold back, or you've observed this multiple times
- y | n
- 3: You feel a lingering frustration that you can't fully surface through 1:1s or other casual chats
- y | n
- 4: There's no culture of thinking before speaking/discussing, so meetings tend to become reactive and ad hoc
- y | n
A question list you can use when incorporating RAMA into a meeting:
- 1: How often is the meeting held, and how long is each session?
- (Write it down)
- 2: Is it worth having a RAMA segment in the agenda every time?
- y | n
- (Write the reason)
- 3: If yes, roughly what percentage of the meeting should it take?
- 20% | 30% | 50% | 100% (same as MAMA)
- 4: Are there any themes you want to set? How many?
- (Write it down)
- 5: If silence happens (no questions for 30+ seconds), how will you facilitate?
- (Write it down)
- 6: How will you accept questions?
- No special setup | Round robin (each person, n rounds) | Introduce another mechanism
- (Describe the mechanism you will use)