Evaluation

• What worked?
• What didn't work?
• What can we do better?

Talk about how you can improve your meetings.

If you are the chair...

You are the leader of the meeting. You...

• put together an agenda
• start and end the meeting on time
• keep the meeting moving
• make sure everyone who wants to talk gets a chance get people at the meeting to vote on derisions

You can make decisions by:

• talking things over
• reaching a group consensus
• voting

When members of a group disagree, you might need to get more information or form a smaller committee to study the problem.

Setting the agenda

The agenda is like a program for the meeting. It lists the things that will happen at the meeting in the order they will happen. You can set the agenda in advance or at the beginning of the meeting.

Taking minutes

The record of what happens at the meeting is called the minutes.

The secretary can take minutes or group members can take turns. You can write down who was at the meeting, where and when it happened and what you talked about.

Make copies of the minutes and give them to the group members.