Your meeting purpose provides clarity on your meeting attendees. Even though you may want to invite everyone to every meeting, this may not help you accomplish your meeting purpose and may not be the best investment of time from your coalition members. Think carefully about who needs to be involved in order to accomplish the […]
Element #2: Determine who needs to attend the meeting Read More »
In these days of back-to-back zoom meetings, we must take the time to be really clear about our meeting purpose before we decide to host a meeting. Can it be an email or a short recorded video? Or do we need to have a discussion about something that can only happen in a meeting format?
Element #1: Be clear about your meeting purpose Read More »
Let’s face it. Coalition work = meetings. As much as we may be weary from meetings or feel like we are constantly moving from meeting to meeting, this is how we work together. As we have transitioned from primarily in-person meetings to primarily virtual meetings, we have learned a lot about what works – and
Eight Elements of Effective Meetings Read More »
When I first developed this blog post in April 2020, I never realized we all would STILL be primarily leading online meetings in April 2021. Since we are still mostly leading online meetings, let’s revisit my Top 10 Tips for Facilitating Online Meetings for you again today!
Top 10 Tips for Facilitating an Online Meeting Read More »
One of the most effective ways to engage your coalition members is to find opportunities that interest them and the coalition. When the work benefits the purpose of the coalition and the individual member, everyone wins! Join me this week as I recommend three ways to pursue win-win opportunities for your coalition.
Coalition Engagement Skill #10: Find win-win opportunities Read More »
Communication is the foundation of coalition work. Even though our coalition members may be overwhelmed by emails and weary from meetings, we have to find ways to communicate clearly and consistently. If there is occasional communication with only a few coalition members, the overall coalition will lose interest and struggle with engagement. Join me this week
Coalition Engagement Skill #9: Communicate Clearly and Consistently Read More »
If you are leading a coalition, partnership, team or board, you are also leading lots of meetings. Effective meetings create opportunities for engagement and potential for follow-through. However, effective meetings don’t just “happen.” You have to invest time, energy and resources to prepare, host and follow-up to successfully conduct “effective” meetings. Join me this week
Coalition Engagement Skill #8: Conduct effective meetings Read More »
When we are leading a coalition, we can feel like we are always talking about what we are doing and can sometimes start to think that everyone else knows what we are doing too. 🙂 Even though we can be easily overwhelmed by emails, if there is infrequent and only occasional communication with only a
Partnership Pitfall #8: Under communicating Read More »
It is easy for us to focus on all the things that are changing and to become overwhelmed with all of the change. While lots of things are changing and there may be some opportunities for new partnerships and new opportunities, not everything has to change. One of the most important things that needs to
Change: Not everything has to change Read More »
This “Zoom background” post has been developed by one of my colleagues and friends, Jamie Studts, who always has an interesting background as part of his zoom meetings. Thank you, Jamie! I should start by noting that I do not have any specific training in technology; therefore, it is very possible and even likely that
Zoom backgrounds: How can I make them work? Read More »