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The real role of co-ordinators
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Some ideas on what skills and knowledge are needed to be a co-ordinator, what co-ordinators are expected to do, and, importantly, what they are not expected to do.
Active listening - a guide
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A tool which can encourage self awareness, provide an opportunity for sharing experiences and can help people to understand the underlying issues. In this instance participants discussed experiences of a good or a bad team they have been in.
What makes a good team?
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Participants considered the criteria and the role of facilitation for a good team.
What makes a good team - a diagram
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A diagram showing what an effective Friends of the Earth local group might look like.
How to facilitate fun and effective meetings
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Good facilitation makes meetings more useful and more enjoyable for everyone there, and helps groups become more effective. This handout sets out some key facilitation roles and responsibilities, then lists a series of practical tools you and your group may find useful in fulfilling these roles.
Ideas for perking up your group
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This is a write up of suggestions for perking up your local group, made at recent induction days for coordinators.
What makes an effective campaigning team?
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Campaigns are the raison d'etre of Friends of the Earth groups, a key reason people join, and a key reason for wanting to develop them into an effective team. But they can also be a key ingredient in buidling a strong team. Thinking together we came up with the key factors of an effective campaigning team, then working in pairs we came up with ways to ensure those factors are present in your campaigns. There was also an opportunity for participants to work through challenge or problem which their group faces or take one of the challenges we thought up. The outcome was a plan with ways to move towards solutions.
Tips on how to deal with difficult behaviour
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A few keys do and don'ts on dealing with difficult behaviour.
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