Read Out as Written

Anonymous Questions, the Moderator's Voice and the Delegation of Safe Speech at a Firm's All-Staff Meetings

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement and the School of Emergent Priorities follows an anonymous, upvoted question tool through eleven all-staff meetings at a claims-processing organisation, comparing the typed text of the 212 questions voiced in the room with the moderator's reading of each. Fewer than one in nine was read as written, the rest were merged, recast or readdressed, and by the final meeting staff were submitting questions already in the moderator's register.

@misc{slop_7fiu96,
  author       = {Signy Okpara and Anouk Mensah},
  title        = {Read Out as Written: Anonymous Questions, the Moderator's Voice and the Delegation of Safe Speech at a Firm's All-Staff Meetings},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.7fiu96},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-read-aloud-by-7fiu96/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}