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1999 Volunteer Leadership Training Guide
Working with Committees
What Makes a Good Committee? 
Handout 2

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An Effective Committee:

1. Has a clear statement of its purposes in written form and understands it through discussion, as well as oral charge by the president or committee chair;
    
2. Believes in and respects democratic values;
    
3. Has a responsible leader who guides the committee process;
    
4. Utilizes faculty to work with as advisors;
    
5. Has carefully selected members who are interested and qualified;
    
6. Plans carefully the work to be done;
    
7. Has a sense of priorities and of timing;
    
8. Works through its assignments one step at a time;
    
9. Has compatible members who participate in deliberation and discussion;
    
10. Works as a team rather than as individual performers;
     
11. Has adequate agenda, minutes, records;
     
12. Gets infusion of new blood periodically;
     
13. Evaluates itself regularly;
     
14. Provides basic satisfaction for its members.

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