
 
 
Cool Block Leader’s  
Team Building Agenda 
  
Meeting Total Time: 1.5 to 2 hrs. 
 
LAST UPDATED: 2/8/17 
 
Before Meeting –  
 
E-mail Team members 2-3 days before with a meeting reminder: 
- Remind them to read a bit in The Cool Block book (private link provided by 
your program manager): The Introduction; optionally, Part 1; and the Pro-
gram Architecture section in Part 2.  
- Ask them to take the very brief online pre-program Cool Block Assessment-
Survey to refer to at the meeting.  This assessment will help your team mem-
bers think about the needs and opportunities on your block, in preparation 
for creating a Team Purpose (see step 3 below). NOTE: This assessment will 
be taken both before and after the program, and its results will be analyzed 
in collaboration with our research partners. 
- Ask them to bring their calendar (for step 7 below) 
- Collect your team’s supply of physical books to provide at the meeting to 
those who need them 
- Register at coolblock.org.  
- Review the website introduction video (available at TOOLS-Help) 
- Create your first Action Plan:  
* Review Topic 1: Read pp. 120-126, and scan action recipes on pp. 130-157. 
* Set your Cool Block goal, calculate your household carbon footprint to dis-
cover your precise CO2 reduction goal, and create your Action Plan for Topic 
1 (pre-selecting for Topic 2) using the online tool at.  Print your Action Plan to 
bring to your meeting. 
- Read pages 109-118 to prepare for this meeting. 
- Write the Agenda below onto a poster board, whiteboard, or flip chart 
- Prepare copies of the Cool Block Topic Schedule Handout and a few copies 
of the Cool Block Recognition Program 
Social Time -  
Be sure to include “Social Time” on the agenda, so people see that this is in-
tentional time, and not merely waiting for people to arrive. 
Welcome, meeting purpose and share agenda. 
You may wish to use The Cool Block – A Deeper Dive to orient everyone. 
Create Team Purpose Statement (Poster paper is handy.) Ask everyone to 
come up with something to include, informed by the Cool Block Assessment-
Survey. Piece it into a statement. A volunteer can wordsmith it later.