Business Acumen

This webinar describes two community-based organizations' challenges and strategies around preparing and persuading staff, thinking about services, costs, and administration in new ways, understanding infrastructure needs, working with new partners, and more.

​This presentation provides tangible strategies for leading an organization through change, focusing on understanding models for change, describing the role leadership plays during change, and identifying strategies for communicating change.

This resource discusses several things to prevent and or derail the rehashing of previous decisions.

People are quiet in meetings for different reasons. Some people are reticent by nature. Others are fearful that their opinions will be ridiculed and dismissed. Some are not comfortable speaking if they don't know for sure who everyone is. Some don't care. This article discusses some strategies the group leader or chair can take to engage everyone.

This audio clip describes some techniques and strategies in handling dominant participant in meetings.

This article talks about what makes a meeting effective. The article discusses how if you structure your meeting planning, preparation, execution, and follow up around three basic criteria, the result will be an effective meeting.

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.