Cascade Volcanoes • Entered by Jane Heisler on October 5, 2019
Leadership Care Call
September 25, 2019
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | 2 |
| Post Admin hours | |
| Activity Hours | 1 |
| Participants | 1 |
| Total Hours | 3 |
Key Issue: Doesn’t apply
Activity Type: Trainings (WALTS, CAREs/GLOWs, research, conferences, workshops, etc.)
Short Description of Activity
how to develop and strengthen a leadership team for your Broadband.
Jane Heisler (Cascade Volcanoes Broadband in Oregon) and Chara Ragland (South San Juan Broadband in Colorado) will be facilitating this call, sharing their ideas and experiences while facilitating a robust discussion.
CARE Call description: There is so much to do as a Broadband leader. There are meetings to coordinate, advocacy issues to tackle, and activity reports to submit! Having a co-leader or a leadership team can help facilitate this while making your advocacy more enjoyable and effective. Join this call to discuss how to create a leadership team and recruit co-leaders to help with the many facets of running a Broadband. leadership teams and co-leaders.
Jane’s ideas:
a. Added perspective with more than one person
b. The more involved people, the more diversity and viewpoints
c. Tips for successful co-chairing: communicate frequently, divide responsibilities clearly, but be flexible and reliable
How to get leaders/co-leaders involved:
This is a tough one! We have people trained up but they don’t always want to step into a full co-chair role. So, what we have done is tried to divide duties amongst the 6 on the leadership team.
I can talk about our various Google Groups for interest areas as well.
Chara’s ideas:
– leader burnout and sharing the duties of reports, meeting planning, trip planning, etc. – it helps to divide the load
– following your passion – we all have our passions and soap boxes that we devote time to, so let those people in your group help you lead
– look for people to gain WALTs training – the more you have, the better you are able to keep leadership skills in place as life happens
– communication is key – find ways to keep in touch with your leadership team
Reflection/Evaluation
Lisa asked that I participate. It went well. We had 9 on the call and many good questions.