Evaluating Your Staff Meetings

08/03/2006

Evaluating Your Staff Meetings

People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing.
John Porter

Today on our home page (www.ChildCareExchange.com) you can read Margie Carter's popular article, "Planning Staff Meetings" from the Exchange book, The Art of Leadership. In this article she offers this advice on evaluating the learning going on in your staff meetings...

Reflect on your last three meetings. Creating three columns on a paper with the dates of each meeting as the headers, quickly jot down the agenda for each and a summary of how time was spent, the tone, focus, and primary voices that were heard. Consider these questions as well:

Was the space well-organized, comfortable, and inviting?
What kinds of choices did the staff have about how time was spent?
In what ways were people able to deepen their relationships and experience being part of a community?
How were staff given opportunities to construct their knowledge about something worth learning?
In what ways was their learning or experience made visible?

Looking over your answers, do you feel your staff had a meaningful learning experience and deepened their connections with each other, the program philosophy and vision, or possibly the value of their work to the wider community?

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