Why Meet?
This is the first step in planning a team meeting.
Decide on the purpose
This community building activity allows participants an opportunity to become energized and process content of the meeting, especially when meetings are more than 90 minutes.
Walk and Talk
Teams that hit this developmental stage have a clearer understanding of their purpose, and they have developed more trust.
Stage 3: Norming
Of the six reasons for meeting, this reason does not always constitute an in-person meeting.
Sharing information
These two primary ways of making meaning allow participants a form of reflection as well as mental processing.
Talking and writing
This stage of team development deals mostly with conflict.
Stage 2: Storming
The text references six reasons for meeting. One of these reasons is the primary reason some teams, like Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) meet.
Learn together (to learn something)
This protocol invites equitable participation, keeps conversations focused, and directs conversations to a deeper level.
Discussion protocol
This stage of development essentially focuses on building trust.
Stage 1: Forming
This verb is typically avoided when drafting outcomes or objectives for a meeting.
Understanding
This community building activity provides each person with an opportunity to reflect on how he or she wants to show up to a meeting.
Intention setting
This stage of development focuses on developing other leaders within a team.
Stage 4: Performing
**DAILY DOUBLE**
These six "big buckets" categorize the most common reasons for a team to meet.
1. Share information
2. Learn something
3. Solve problems
4. Make decisions
5. Plan
6. Build community
Give at least three strategies or "routines" from the text that a facilitator might use to build positive culture / community.
Group Check-In, Community Agreements or Norms, Five Deep Breaths, Poetry or Quotes, Intention Setting, Student Profile, Dyads, Walk and Talk, or Appreciations.
Before deciding on an activity for the meeting, a facilitator should anticipate these three things.
1. Energy / energy level / amount of energy
2. Pairings & groupings
3. The teams developmental stage