Getting Started

Hold a meeting

• Facilitation 101: Role of Effective Facilitators

  This downloadable workshop from Idealist on Campus provides a basic introduction to techniques and tips for facilitation, and is useful for trainings, discussion groups and other formats.

• How to Run a Good Meeting

  The Center for Community Change offers this resource for new leaders that addresses key steps and strategies for running a great meeting.

• What to Do During a Meeting

  As part of the Academic Leadership Support Program through the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this section of their resource center offers “ten leader actions” that can maximize your group’s time and productivity.

• Facilitation: The Secret to Smooth, Synchronized Meetings

  This resource from The Student Environmental Action Coalition reveals that the secret for running an effective meeting is MAPS (Materials, Agenda, People, Space).

• Consensus Building

  This section of The United States National Park Service's Community Tool Box is intended to help you or your group learn to respectfully engage with other members' opinions in order to develop shared resolutions.