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Facilitators help keep meetings on track by introducing the agenda items, taking stack to ensure everyone can be heard.

Introducing Agenda Items

  • Facilitators read the main items in the agenda Meeting Notes Template and call for participants to speak to the details of the agenda items.

==Taking Stack

  • Watch for people raising their hands in person and on Jitsi or Pad chat.
  • Respond in the chat or aloud with their name saying they're on stack.
  • Summarize the stack order periodically.

Direct Responses

Facilitate timeliness:

The facilitator tries to help everyone get through all the agenda items within a reasonable time frame before people expire from exhaustion while ensuring that everyone has a chance to be heard. This doesn't mean that everyone can realistically take infinite time to be heard about each item.

  • Encourage people to be brief during intros and announcements.
  • Ask if people are ready or willing to move on if a topic has gone on longer than seems productive.
  • You can usually frame facilitation requests to elicit willingness to get to the point or table things for later rather than to leave people feeling unheard.