CB.2:4.1 - Choose an exchange that can finish

Take the purpose from the current proposal rather than inventing an entertaining activity to fill a calendar. Name a small useful result and its recipient. A repair case might end with a justified diagnostic next step. A writers’ group might end with an author understanding one reader’s difficulty. A neighbourhood meeting might end with two people agreeing a feasible shared action.

Bound the work so that the recipient can supply relevant material and a contributor can respond within the proposed time. A request to “share your expertise” gives neither party enough direction. A request to inspect one permitted observation and explain which of two next steps it supports can.

State what would count as a usable result and what must remain outside the exchange. Use the target practice’s criteria for a technical answer. A community organiser can arrange access to a qualified judgement without being qualified to make it. For a social activity, a wanted opportunity to speak and be heard may be the result; do not impose a technical deliverable on that purpose.

If the original request needs a missing domain method, unavailable data or a decision that the participants cannot make, obtain that contribution or revise the activity. A well-run meeting cannot supply it by itself.