MoT #4: Program Planning & Meeting Organization

As noted in the introduction, if your planning & organization is poor, your meeting will not have the structure it needs to run smoothly. You will have to assign people last minute, which may require forcing people who are unprepared and uncomfortable with a role to take it. It may cause doubling or tripling up on roles. All of this will stress out your members, and make it appear to your guests that you don't have your act together.

In contrast, with RDG program planning & meeting organization, you do a lot more work prior to the meeting in order to make it work much more efficiently. You'll be able to better assign people to roles, especially the speaker roles (these require much more preparation time). This will also let you move your DCP champions (people that have pledged that they will accomplish an educational award) toward their goals as well.