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Meeting Guiding Principle #2: Everyone Participates

One of the best ways to apply Meeting Guiding Principle #1: Teacher of others and learner from others is to garner participation from as many people as possible. Whether you are leading a small or large group, there will always

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Meeting Guiding Principle #2: Everyone Participates

One of the best ways to apply Meeting Guiding Principle #1: Teacher of others and learner from others is to garner participation from as many people as possible. Whether you are leading a small or large group, there will always

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Jennifer Redmond Knight Horizontal Divider

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Meeting Guiding Principle #2: Everyone Participates

One of the best ways to apply Meeting Guiding Principle #1: Teacher of others and learner from others is to garner participation from as many people as possible. Whether you are leading a small or large group, there will always

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Compassion in our coalitions

If you have worked in coalitions and partnerships for a month or longer, you know that coalition work is all about relationships. Although there are many principles and practices that will support relationship-building, one of the most powerful is practicing

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What do I do when I want more coalition members to take action?

One of the most rewarding and yet challenging aspects of leading coalitions is engaging coalition members in specific tasks. During meetings, many people will have ideas, recommendations and projects that can be implemented by the coalition. When the discussion shifts

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What do I do when I want volunteers to lead more meetings?

When leading coalitions and partnerships, there is always the challenge of clarifying which roles staff play and which roles volunteer leaders play. Oftentimes, coalition staff want to engage volunteer leaders (e.g. co-chairs) in leading meetings but are not sure how

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What do I do when I cannot do it all well?

When we are passionate about our work and we really care about others, one of the most challenging things to admit is that we cannot do it all. While we may intuitively know this, our calendars and our to-do lists

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What do I do when I don’t know what to do?

In every season, we have experiences and opportunities where we can learn and grow as  coalition leaders. Whether we are attempting a new meeting strategy that is working well or we feel stuck in a challenging workgroup, if we are

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Practice self compassion

In the process of regaining your rhythm, there will be times that you will give away your time to too many meetings, fail to say “no”, skip your rituals and struggle with feeling overwhelmed again. While you may be disappointed

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Develop positive daily and weekly routines

What is the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning? How do you begin or end your workday?  As a coalition leader, you are in the role of “giving” most of the day. Although this work

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Jennifer Redmond Knight Horizontal Divider

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Take your own advice.

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

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Top 10 Tips for Facilitating an Online Meeting

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

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10 Keys to Accountability

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

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