This morning was crazy! I got to my internship and the
office was empty...not a person in site.
I sat in the kitchen, made myself a coffee them turned on my
computer and read my emails to find out I had been invited to the monthly board
meeting. I walked over to the board room and the meeting had already
started...as I walked in everyone stopped, stared at me but then welcomed me
in!
The first thing they do in there board meetings is talk
about what each department has done over the past month and there upcoming
prospects. As a group we all spoke about the current company operations,
marketing strategies, donations, financing, human resources, safety
regulations, sales and PR.
By 11 o'clock I though the meeting was wrapping up…but nope!
It was now everyone’s turn to talk individually about what they have been
working on and what their future and current plans are. Since I was sitting
next to the CEO I was told to go first. I
spoke about how I'm doing the event planning for the Annual Santa Fun Run and the
annual summer newsletter. Once I had stopped talking the marketing manager told
the staff how I have come up with new ideas with ways to target people for the
Santa Fun Run and everyone seemed really happy with what I had come up with!
Everyone was starting to get restless at this time and the meeting went completely
off track and dragged on.
By lunch time the meeting finally ended... it goes to show
how much actually happens in a charity and there is constantly something
happening! Now I know why they don’t have the meeting once a week………because it
goes for so long and takes up nearly a whole day of work!
