Learning experience
It’s a learning experience. A learning experience. I need to keep telling myself that. LEARNING. EXPERIENCE.
Y’all know those committees you hate going to meetings of? Well, I’ve just been asked to chair one. You heard me. Not “serve on.” “Chair.” If the meetings suck? It’s my fault.
The particular task force I will be chairing will lay the groundwork for our library system’s communications and branding, on- and off-line. Not a small undertaking. And several of the people on this task force are over my head in the hierarchy, so it’s kinda important for me to get this meeting stuff right—or at least not screw it up too badly.
Learning experience. Learning experience. Learning experience. Okay. Whew. Breathing again. Some people have public-speaking issues; I have management issues.
Thank goodness for the systems-design course I took in library school. (Hear that, y’all libschoolers? Good things do come out of library school!) Without that I’d not have the least idea how to get a plan going. As it is, I’m whomping up a Gantt chart and thinking through the first meeting agenda.
Ack, I’m gonna hafta chair meetings! But I never—
LEARNING. EXPERIENCE.
If you know of a smart, no-BS guide to effective meeting management, now would be a really good time to send me the citation information.