When you are struggling with multiple people requesting your attention, many decisions to make and potential coalition priorities, the pressure to quickly respond can be overwhelming.

In our coalition work, we are constantly planning and hosting meetings, projects and events. Depending upon our time, staff/leader capacity and partner availability, these can have varying levels of complexity and require us to consider many factors.

Since our work continues to focus on online meetings, we have to keep practicing and learning what works and what does not work for our specific meeting needs and audiences.

No one wants to talk about it (and we did - check out Part 1 and Part 2 Masterclasses!) but accountability is an important aspect of coalition building and trust building.

Whether you are meeting in person for the first time in a LONG time or you are still primarily virtual, you want people to want to come to your meetings.

We can easily say “trust” is important or we want more “trust” in our coalition, but actually building trust takes time and intentionality. Building trust = building and maintaining relationships.