Conducting Effective Meetings

Keeping everyone informed and inside the communications loop is essential to the health of the partnership. Both internal and external meetings and communications will be required.Set up your lines of communication now. Determine how often key players in a partnership will need to meet and how long these meetings will last. Each participant should be able to answer these questions after each meeting:

• what is the goal for the project?
  
• what can the station commit to the project?
  
• what is each organization's responsibility to the project?
  
• what is my next step in the project?
  
• will there be a need for additional or subcommittee meetings? If so, are they scheduled?
  
• what is the purpose of each subcommittee?
  
• who will represent the station and the partner at subcommittee meetings?