Telephone Chain chair
Objectives
The Telephone Chain chair is responsible for transmitting urgent organization messages to the general membership.
Appointed by the President, the Telephone Chain chair establishes a telephone calling chain.
Typical tasks and tips
- Assign and train a backup top-of-chain contact.
- Assign chain members.
- Organize members into a contact chain, in such a way that:
- ALL members, including members of the Board, are contacted.
- the absence of any member is automatically covered by others in the chain.
- there is positive feedback to the chair when all messages have been delivered.
- Respond to requests from any Board member to transmit messages by initiating the chain.
- Notify the requestor when all messages have been delivered.
Last revised 2/2/03
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