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Coalition Engagement Skill #8: Conduct effective meetings

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If you are leading a coalition, partnership, team or board, you are also leading lots of meetings. Effective meetings create opportunities for engagement and potential for follow-through. However, effective meetings don’t just “happen.” You have to invest time, energy and resources to prepare, host and follow-up to successfully conduct “effective” meetings.  Join me this week […]

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Coalition Engagement Skill #7: Show empathy

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If you had a chance to participate in one of my recent Masterclasses, you will know that we spent a lot of time on the importance of showing empathy and compassion. Everyone in our  “zoom squares” has a story. We never know what may be happening in the lives of our coalition members. They may

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Coalition Engagement Skill #6: Demonstrate energy and enthusiasm

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Engaging coalitions, partnerships, workgroups and teams is particularly challenging right now. Most meetings are still occurring virtually and “zoom” fatigue is real. When only a few people show their video and the energy is low, it is really difficult to effectively engage participants. As a coalition leader, you are responsible for modeling and encouraging positive

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Coalition Engagement Skill #5: Facilitate conversations and connections

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One of the most important roles for a coalition leader to play is that of a “master facilitator.” Although you may think you need to be the one to “do” everything, if you are really going to be able to achieve more together than you can on your own, facilitate conversations and connections. Join me

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Coalition Engagement Skill #4: Clarify meaningful roles and responsibilities

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Do you know what only you can do as a coalition leader? Do your coalition members know their roles and how they “fit” in the coalition? As a coalition leader, it is easy to “assume” that everyone knows what role(s) they are playing as part of the coalition. You may also have different expectations for

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Coalition Engagement Skill #3: Know your members’ interests and capacity

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In order to engage coalition members, you have to know them. What are their interests? Where are their passions? Do they have capacity to participate in your work groups or teams? The more you can understand your coalition members and what is important to them, the better you can engage them in the coalition. It

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Coalition Engagement Skill #2: Create a neutral forum

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How many times have you been to a meeting and you can clearly see that one organization’s agenda is clearly more important than any other organization? How often have you experienced competition among members?  When you are convening groups of people around a common purpose, someone needs to provide a neutral forum. In my experience,

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Learning from a successful coalition leader

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Life’s most persistent and urgent question is ‘What are you doing for others?’ Martin Luther King Jr. As we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday today, we can learn a lot about coalition building from him and his work. As a leader, he knew how to build coalitions, engage his members and interacted positively with

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