Why Meet?
Your group won't move forward unless they meet on a regular basis, but every meeting should have a clear purpose.- Coalition Members need to feel they are a part of a team.
To build a team, it is important to hold regular meetings, develop a decision-making process, and find and fulfill member's needs and interests.
- In the simplest and most basic way, a meeting defines the team.
Everyone is able to look around and perceive the whole group and sense the collective identity of which he or she forms a part.
- A meeting is the place where the group revises, updates, and adds
to what it knows as a group.
Every group creates its own pool of shared knowledge, experience, and judgment.
- A meeting helps every member understand both the collective aim
of the group and the way in which his or her work and everyone else's
work can contribute to the group success.
A meeting creates in all present a commitment to the decisions it makes and the objectives it pursues.
- A meeting is very often the only occasion where the team actually exists and works as a group.
- The First Meeting (PDF: 8 KB 1 page)
- How Did the Meeting Go? (PDF: 4 KB 1 page)
- Meeting Record (PDF: 4 KB 1 page)
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