Rotating roles as a development pipeline
Every meeting role is also a training slot. Use them deliberately.
Rotate four roles every meeting: facilitator, notetaker, timekeeper, relational lead (the person who runs check-ins and closing). Track who has held each role on a shared sheet.
When a Host (Rung 4) facilitates their first meeting, that is a promotion event. Co-plan the agenda with them, debrief afterward, give them honest feedback. The second time they facilitate, do less co-planning. By the fourth, they are doing it themselves.
Notetakers learn the substance of the campaign faster than anyone, because they have to write it down. Promote good notetakers into roles where they have to know everything: coordinator, lead organizer, training cohort.
This is Ella Baker's principle made operational: the role of the organizer is to develop leaders, and meetings are the most reliable place to do it.
Learner action
Open a shared sheet titled 'Meeting roles tracker'. List the next six meetings and the four roles. Fill in names. The first three meetings should already be assigned; the last three are aspirational and will be revisited.
Template: When a member is ready to move from Host to Leader, co-author a 90-day leader development plan with them — not for them.
Action: Complete the learner action above, then slide to continue.