Effective Meetings

• Exercise 1: The Individual in the Group
• Exercise 2: Value of Groups
• Exercise 3: Team Building Opinionnaire
• Exercise 4: The Outer Space Experience
• Exercise 5: Self and Group Reflection
• Exercise 6
1. Small Group Introductions
2. Guidelines for The Effective Use of Newsprint
• Exercise 7
1. Nominal Group Technique
2. Guidelines For Using the Nominal Group Technique
3. Building Working Groups: What Size Group is Best?
4. Reaching Your Community
5. Making a Commitment to Capacity Building
• Exercise 8: Identfying Your Role in Capacity Building
• Exercise 9: A General Assessment of Needs
• Exercise 10: Choosing the Best Training Activities to Meet an Objective
• Exercise11
1. Feedback for Facilitators
2. The Facilitator's Role
3. Facilitator's Observation Sheet
• Exercise 12
1. Developing Real Input into Policy
2. Results From a "Developing Real Input" Workshop
3. Membership vs. Leadership

• Lois M. Frey, UVM Extension, RR #4, Box 2298, Montpelier, VT 05602, (802) 223-2389, email: lfrey@sover.net
• "Group Development: Creating Group Effectiveness" by Duane Dale, DFD Associates, 99 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-3402 (moving to 764 South East Street, Amherst, MA 01022 after 8/1/98);
• Bob Biagi, 142 Cherry Lane, Amherst, MA 01002 (413) 549-1412;

Comments to: crs@uvm.edu
Reviewed as of 4/20/98