Collaborative Writing Activity

Collaborate with your team to plan a meeting agenda for the monthly staff meeting of one team member’s organization. The agenda should include routine agenda items and should also include a workplace issue that will be addressed at the staff meeting.

Discuss with your team in the Discussion area.

I have monthly team meetings and professional development trainings (these are required for my team have to keep up on professional growth hours to maintain their site supervisor permits.

• What typical agenda items do you cover in your current and/or past staff meetings?

I address items that have come up either throughout the year or the previous month. They could include:

Parent concerns

Behavior management concerns

Billing issues

Site inspection issues

Any issues within my team/program that have required attention over the past month.

I attend and conduct regular staff meetings with my team. Twice per month.

• If you have not attended a staff meeting before, what do you think should be covered in a regular staff meeting?

I cover items that have been suggested by my team; issues that they are facing in their programs or with their teams. I also cover items that relate to policy and procedure or issues concerning compliance and following protocol.

• Explain what agenda items you would like to cover in your current and/or past staff meetings and why?

Examples: my last meeting focused on fostering positive relationships with their ream members. Appropriate conversations for work

Sometimes we give our team members “homework assignments:”

• What are some action items that may arise from a typical staff meeting? Are you assigned or have you been assigned action items after attending staff meetings?

Ex: After our last meeting, I asked my team members to each email me their employees’ hours at each of their sites. I gave them a deadline and held them accountable.

Below is a Meeting Agenda I created, used with my team:

• They are also required to turn in monthly lesson plan and snack menus for me to review. If I have questions or require corrections, I email them individually and expect them to get back to me by a certain time (usually detailed in my communication with them.)
• What role do you play in your staff meetings? Do you assist in the planning process? Do you take minutes?
  • I mostly plan my staff meetings. My boss and I rotate each month, or if we both have topics that we need to address, we will both speak. For instance, this Friday we have a team meeting from 9:45-11:45am. I will get one hour to speak and she will get one hour to speak. I am always in charge of doing an icebreaker at each meeting, just because I have a lot of experience with this. I will show them how to implement these techniques with their teams so they can do team building activities at their team meeting at their sites.

Student Care

Professional Development Training

3/23/18

Meeting Norms:

We will honor the time of all team members.

We will actively listen to all team members and respect all voices on the team.

We will assume positive intent when there are varying opinions on the team.

Agenda