- Make sure that your near-term and long-term objectives and that of the others are aligned.

- Focus on those larger objectives, not the meetings and paperwork. (Meetings, paperwork and everything else are, perhaps, a means to get there, but they are not, in and of themselves, your objective.)

- Win over your colleagues and your community. Show them you care by doing the things that they value.

- Reset your expectations about the way meetings take place.

- Evolve, and grow—individually, collectively, and as an institution.

And an observation: If more people in more communities saw museums as vital social areas first, rather than as “Museums,” we’d have a lot more people engaged with museums as attendees, patrons, volunteers, and donors.

. . .

Lee Wright | Founder | History Camp | The History List

On Jul 31, 2015, at 12:18 AM, Kathleen Brattinga <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hello all
I have been working with the Kingman museum with their Registered Museum Program paperwork and I have found a snag.
The people who are running the museum see the museum as a social area first and museum second. Which makes sticking to a time table difficult. Also all the members are elderly and I am 25.
My question is how can I keep them on task without becoming a young upstart or rude. Also how should a meeting be run, how to create an agenda and stick to it?
Thank you for all your help.
Kate Brattinga

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