Business Acumen

This article includes tips for designing an effective agenda for your next meeting, with a sample agenda and template. You can use these tips whether a meeting lasts an hour or three days and whether you’re meeting with a group of five or forty.

This video describes meeting roles and responsibilities.

This resource describes the meeting roles for the leader, facilitator, recorder, and timekeeper.

This is a list of 10 proven meeting rules. In addition to having a meeting agenda that guides meeting participants towards accomplishing the meeting goals, participants of productive meetings have a clear understanding of what is expected of them to best support this process. This is where meeting ground rules come in to play.

This article describes a set of eight research-inspired ground rules, or behaviors, that can help teams improve their performance, working relationships, and individual well-being.

This is an abstract topic page on Community Partnerships from AAHD's Health Promotion Resource Center.

The AAHD Health Promotion Resource Center for People with Disabilities is intended to provide visitors with current and valuable information about multiple aspects of health promotion and wellness for people with disabilities.

This article discusses successful strategic planning. The successful strategic planning process will examine and make informed projections about environmental realities to help an organization anticipate and respond to change by clarifying its mission and goals; targeting spending; and reshaping its programs, fundraising and other aspects of operations.

In this training, you will learn the keys to leadership at Centers for Independent Living from four successful CIL leaders from around the country. You will learn how to lead programs and organizations to new growth and sustainability, identify and improve your own leadership abilities, and prepare employees to take on more responsibility so you are always building new and improved leaders all around you.

This training demonstrates how you how you can move beyond data collection as a chore to put data to work for you. They discuss the importance of obtaining buy-in and commitment from all relevant stakeholders for increasing the success of a statewide data collecting and reporting effort; how to incorporate and utilize standardized collection methods at the local CIL level; how to combine individual CIL data into a statewide database reporting tool; and much more.