Yesterday Donna Scheeder did a nearly two-hour session on how to run effective meetings. The time included a 15 minute exercise where each table got to have a mini-meeting and (hopefully) use some of the things that we learned in the session. If you are interested in the handout from this session, please check with someone in your Chapter to see if they can share it with you at a local meeting. (And I'll try to ask Donna if a copy will be available online.)
Donna asked for feedback at the end of the session. Since she had many slides with lots of info on them, one person suggested that she use the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. I've used the rule and it can lead to a tight, focused and creative presentation. It may not have been appropriate for what Donna was trying to do (training more than presenting), but the mention of it did get people in the audience talking about what "it" was.
One piece of feedback that occurred to me later is that the group likely had a lot of wisdom about running meetings. It might have been very effective to have turned the session into an unconference session, where the participants in the session helped to create the agenda and content on the spot. (We could also say that the content for the session could have been "crowdsourced.")
Today will be another full day...and it will begin soon!
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