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Do You Run Public Meetings? 
Public input, or community, meetings may be the most challenging type. Here are tips to facilitate them effectively:

Planning the Meeting
-Determine the meeting's purpose. Make sure everyone understands and agrees.
-Develop a draft agenda and get stakeholder approval.

Conducting the Meeting

-Separate the role of "content expert" and "facilitator." The facilitator must remain neutral and drive the meeting's process. 

-Use behavioral groundrules. 
-Create a follow-up plan.  

 

After the Meeting
-Distribute minutes to all participants.
-Invite further written input.

Would your organization benefit by improving its meeting facilitation skills? The skills are easy to learn and exert enormous impact on a project's success. 

Discover the most important tool for effective meetings, no matter what size or type. 
Super-Fun Activities for Training

Unlike this maneuver, everyone in your class can do the easy energizers in this video. Called "Ten Bets You Will Always Win," the video teaches you to impress your friends and family as well. Have fun! 

 

"Feeling Creatures That Think"  

In the last newsletter, I asked what this quote meant for trainers and facilitators: "Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think." (Jill Bolte Taylor, Neuroanatomist )  

 

Two respondents thought similarly. Here's an amalgam of their responses:

 

"We need to connect with our audiences or team members and an emotional level before we can hope to engage them intellectually. Information without 'connection' will not lead to the results we seek. If the audience can connect with the trainer emotionally, the message can get through."

 

Thank you, Jane Adams, of California Parks and Recreation Society, and Carolyn Scafidi, of Washington Fish and Wildlife. 

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