Conversation starters for Recruitment:
How did you get here? Who recruited you? Did you volunteer? Where did you learn about TAC/Councils?
Do you already know someone that hasn’t served on TAC, but would be a good fit?
What is the biggest barrier to entry to join your team?
What can we do about that (blue sky thinking)?
What can we do about that more practically?
What do you feel comfortable with in your responsibilities and what do you not?
Not looking for only leadership concerns here, which have been noted elsewhere, but the nuts and bolts of the work.
What have you learned on TAC that you didn’t know before?
Conversation starters for increasing Visibility:
What do you wish the community knew?
Or, what answers would you like from the community?
Or, what do you want to show off this term? Note that this is an end-of-term goal, so please revisit as the term goes on.
What do you wish the board knew?
Reaching outward is one thing, but reaching upward is another. We can engage with the community, but we may also wish to engage with the board.
TAC and UAC Chairs provide quarterly reports. In addition to summaries, we may also raise concerns and ideas. But what are these?
Conversation starters for Improving workflows:
What improved over the last year?
What didn’t?
Any new concerns?
Would your sub team be willing to present on what they learned this term to TAC during the next term?
Conversation starters for Communication:
What improved over the last year?
Do you have any ideas for improving scheduling? What tools have you used outside of your TAC experiences that may help?
Did your team start a slack or a discord channel? Now that I asked, do you wish you had one?
Any new concerns?