If you want donors and your colleagues to see you as the smartest person in the room,effect a lot of notes and then leave early for a field visitWhile you may think you work for the good of the people of [fill in the name of country here], you actually work for the donor. And donors admire nothing more than holding meetings. Some common varieties of meetings are: sync, or coordination,working group, and budget. And there’s the dreaded, and avoid-at-all-costs: pre-meeting – where you recede over what you’re going to talk approximately at the actual meeting. Related: Confessions of a humanitarian: I've never met a meeting I couldn't sleep through Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com