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(-B-R & E -171 _I For each potential strategy,the researcher makes a short no one from the Task Force agrees to call the first meeting, presentation of the research results,which relate to that you might want to remove this as a priority item. strategy, first describing the nature of the strategy. Then the group will be split into small groups(three to five people Many groups set the date for a Task Force meeting after the each)to discuss the suggested projects and to invent new community meeting as a time when these small groups will ones. Then each small group will nominate one project for give a progress report and seek additional help from the the final report. At this stage,all nominations will be Task Force. recorded on flip charts,but no decisions will be made. Suggested Agenda for BR&E Task Force Retreat After all strategies are covered in this fashion,the group has to decide whether to vote on their final choices at this 9:30 a.m. .........................................Registration and coffee' meeting or to wait until another meeting. There are advan- 10:00............... Welcome Task Force and introduce program tages and disadvantages of either choice. Waiting gives you (coordinator) time to get more people on board,but it also can cause you 10:15 ..................Review of research results from firm visits to lose momentum. After some discussion,it's best to take a and presentation of strategy one(researcher) secret ballot on the approach to use. If the group decides to 10:30 ................. In small groups,discuss suggested projects vote now,each person gets three sticky dots(little round 10:45 .................... Nominate projects related to this strategy self-adhesive dots available in most business supply stores). 11:00 ......................Review research results for strategy two Each person then chooses their top three priority projects by (researcher) placing a dot next to them. The four to six projects with the 11:15 .............. Small group discussion of suggested projects greatest number of votes are adopted as priorities. It 11:30 ............Nomination of projects related to this strategy generally takes about four hours(plus any meal time)to 11:45 .................................................................. Lunch break complete this process,if you do it in one meeting. See next 12:30 p.m........Review of research results for strategy three column for a suggested agenda. You may want to take extra (researcher) copies of the section"Who Will Take Charge of Each 12:45 ................. In small groups,discuss suggested projects Project?"with you to the meeting. It's important that people 1:00..................... Nominate projects related to this strategy take charge of the various projects that are adopted. Using 1:30...................... Review research results for strategy four the form provided in Appendix B can help to organize the (researcher) committee's initial efforts.' 1:45 .................. In small groups,discuss suggested projects 2:00..................... Nominate projects related to this strategy Who Will Take Charge of Each Project? 2:15........................................... Final discussion and voting In setting priorities for future BR&E Visitation projects, it is 2:45 ....... Set date for Community Commencement Meeting important to consider who will do the work. Research has 3:00..........................................................................Adjourn shown that written plans from BR&E Visitation programs that include not only who helped develop the project,but who will work on each specific project are more likely to experience success. This is because people will agree that Good Attendance at the Retreat many things ought to be done,as long as someone else is BR&E Visitation Task Forces don't have legislative willing to do it! An important ingredient to success is to authority or large budgets. Their power comes from the choose only those projects that a critical mass of local members of the Task Force,which includes people who leaders have agreed to help implement. have influence in a large number of organizations that do have budgets and legal authority to impact economic None of the priority projects will happen if someone from development. Yet,this power can only be realized if the the BR&E Visitation Task Force isn't able to provide group reaches a consensus on what ought to be done in leadership to make it happen. At least two or three people economic development. If the attendance at the retreat is should be on a subcommittee to organize the project over low,it is not possible to credibly claim that the projects the next four to six months. The committee will often invite represent a consensus of influential community leaders. another three to six people from outside the BR&E Visita- tion effort to help them,and that committee may invite others to become involved at some stage. It depends on the project. However,someone has to call the first meeting. You can't expect people who aren't at this retreat to do it. If Local Leadership Team Manual — 11