8th meeting! Mission Statement and meeting decorum

Connection before content:

Opening activity: Have cards on the table from the Ungame. 

1. Remove any of the questions that you think you already know about everyone in the group. 
2. Choose 2 questions from the table that you really want to know about your teammates.
3. Listen to the answers. 

I watched a video with Chris Littlefield. He is a psychologist and helps teams create more successful interactions. 

We are going to work on professional meetings today. I want you to think about how you are going to show up for this meeting. Think like you are an employee and not a student. – How do you want to act today? How would you like to be in this meeting? 

I want to be organized and be a good listener. 

Meetings: 

1. Clear agenda – with goals
2. Roles – who is in charge of what and who will lead the different sections of our discussions? HR – Marketing – Finance – Operations
3. Stay on Topic
4. Summarize action items before leaving. 

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Monday the 24th at 4:00pm we have a meeting with Abriendo Mentes? 

Who wants to go?

What questions do we want to ask Abriendo Mentes in the meeting in a week and a half. We can send some questions before – so that they are ready.

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Mission statement: 

This is the statement that will guide us through our project. It is a sentence or 2 that states the aims and values of a group or organization. It states what it does, for whom and its goals.  It can be specific to the project or can just be about our group – and show the potential and goals that we want to achieve. 

Read the mission statements from famous companies from the file. What is your favorite? Why?

Before we start writing a mission statement – you need all the facts! On a piece of paper write down:

• The name that we have chosen for our group or project
• The purpose of our project
• The stakeholders that we will affect
• The goal that we would like to achieve
• And check to make sure that this aligns with our values 

Choose at least 3 of the characteristics of a mission statement from below to use when you write your mission statement. 

• Visionary 
• Broad
• Realistic
• Motivational
• Short and Concise
• Easily Understood

Let’s write our mission statement – I am going to give you 5 words and at first you are going to use those to write a statement. Then we are going to compare our statements and evaluate – and do it again with another 5 words…. 

Hopefully, we have a statement at the end of the time.

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Our roles – if we are going to do an event in LC in December – what do we need to do? 

Who can we talk to in LC to help us? Mentors – Maybe have the meeting out there next week and see if we can ask a couple people to discuss our ideas? If so, we need to have a plan. 

What do we need to do for next week’s meeting? – we can also do a SWOT analysis or a stakeholder analysis next week and get ready for the next meeting.