Hi everyone,
Thanks for your feedback and ideas at our February retreat about how we can continue to build and strengthen our fantastic chapter! Here are my notes about things we will "start, stop, and continue". I really love and appreciate your commitment to each other and our group. It matters.
Continue
- In-person, dinner meetings at Victoria’s beautiful offices
- Check-in process at the start of each meeting
- Real-time prioritization and “roundtables” to address the most relevant and timely issues
- Integrating breakout groups into monthly meeting format
- Annual chapter retreat
- Setting and reinforcing expectations around active participation (i.e., attending 75% of chapter meetings and helping to build the chapter through recruitment, hosting, and events)
- Recycling and using compostable materials where possible
Stop
- Slow start to meetings, by waiting for folks to arrive. Set the expectation that members arrive by 3:50 so we can start promptly at 4 pm.
- Empathy question doesn’t add much to the roundtable discussion.
- Continue focus on in-person meetings, not Zoom
Start
- Add a summer mini-retreat (one day, locally) that includes a workshop topic and social time, planned by chapter members (Krista, Molly, Barbara).
- Add a new segment, “Rapid Sharing”, where members share information with each other on relevant topics such as AI, Dealing with Fraud. Purpose is to get a quick read on who is doing what, so members can follow-up as needed for more information on the topic.
- Experiment with a new segment, “Ask the Expert”, where the group gets to ask questions of a member to better understand their expertise, connections, and to uncover synergies.
- Expand monthly call, currently organized by Juliana and Barbara, to be open to any chapter members that are interested.
- Experiment with new knowledge capture methods amongst the group. Christina will create a What’s App group for easy communication amongst chapter members on real time issues.
- Members to initiate more informal contact with each other between meetings, including using social/networking venues such as The Battery, University Club, Metropolitan Club, etc.
