When leading coalitions, partnerships and teams, you have an endless list of “potential” priorities. Each time you receive an email – or teams, slack, or text message – you could pile on another role, responsibility or task to your already busy schedule. But is that what you SHOULD do? How do you decide? How do […]
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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. Last week, during one of these planning meetings, I came up with lots of ideas that would result
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As we plan and prepare our coalition meetings, we have lots of decisions to make about the type(s) of meetings we host. We once again have opportunities to meet in person, sometimes we host hybrid meetings and we continue to have most of our meetings in a virtual platform. Prior to 2020, virtual meetings were
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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. When some people are held accountable and others are not, trust is difficult to maintain. If you have been following my blog posts on
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As we head into Spring (and the same thing happens in the Fall), we are facing meetings in every area of our lives! If you are leading groups of volunteers, there is likely a window of a few months in the Spring and Fall that are meeting heavy. When we are trying to get people
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Last week, we highlighted the importance of trust in coalition building. 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. This is why trust is so critically important for coalition building. Honestly, when we
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Coalition building is all about working together with others to do more than we could do on our own. If we are going to work with others and make an impact, we have to trust the people in our coalition. Since most people involved in coalitions volunteer their time, we must create networks, teams, workgroups
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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
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Let’s face it. It is really easy to say “yes” in our coalition work but holding ourselves, our leaders and our members accountable is challenging. It’s not that we don’t want to follow through, it’s just that there are so many different things to do. And as we just finished our series on Escape the
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As a coalition leader, is there ever a time when you don’t feel busy? Do you feel like you are running from one meeting (zoom) to the next and never really have time to DO any of the work you would like to do? Are you weary and wondering if it is possible for you
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