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  • Charges & Missions
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  • How Clear Is Your Mission?
  • Developing a Mission
  • Writing an Overview

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  • Parliamentary Procedure
  • Types of Motions
  • The First Meeting
  • Problems in Meetings

  • Facilitation & Participation
  • Open Houses
  • Participation Strategies
  • The First Meeting
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  • Decision-Making
  • Consensus Management
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  • Levels of Consensus Tool

Groups, Meetings, and Events

Planning, Organizing, and Conducting

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Mobilizing key community people and organizations - and keeping them engaged - helps ensure a project's success. These tools focus on the process of forming and running groups, meetings, programs, and events.


Charges, Missions, and Program Overviews

  • Attributes of a Successful Group or Committee
  • Community Advisory Council (Purpose, Roles and Responsibilities, Resource Members, Decision-making Process)
  • Mission: How Clear Is Your Mission?
  • Mission: Developing a Mission Statement
  • Writing: Writing an Overview of your Program, Group, or Task Force (Features to Include)

Meeting Protocol: Conducting and Facilitating Meetings

  • Meeting Tips
  • Parliamentary Procedure
  • Types of Motions
  • The First Meeting
  • What to Do When You Have Problems in the Meeting

Facilitating and Encouraging Participation

  • Coalitions: Is Your Coalition on the Road to Success?
  • Community Opinion Survey
  • A Tale of Two Open Houses: The Open House Technique
  • The Basics of Creating a Participation Strategy
  • The First Meeting
  • Volunteers - Responsibilities and Rights

Decision-Making Styles and Models

  • Consensus Management
  • Decision Making: We Need to Make a Decision!
  • Levels of Consensus Tool
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