With your initial team assembled, you're ready to set the tone for everything to come. The kick-off meeting is your opportunity to establish priorities and begin to craft the workplan that will achieve them.
Kick-Off Meeting
The Strongest Start Toward Building Resilience
Tips for Running Your Meeting
How you organize your meeting is completely up to you, but these steps can help ensure that your meeting stays on track and helps you accomplish what you're hoping to achieve:
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Introduce the team.
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Review how resilience works. Community resilience is a relatively new concept. RAND Corporation's Learn and Tell Toolkit can help you explain in plain language what it means to be a resilient community. You can download the kit here.
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Provide a high-level description of your project
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Review each member's roles and responsibilities
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Establish how and when you'll communicate with your team
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Invite feedback
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Outline the next steps
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