Stage II: Assess Your Community Strengths will help you and your team narrow down the exercises that your team will be assigned so that they are not drawing upon audiences or resources that your community does not have. 

Perhaps someone in your group is set on hosting a Black Tie Gala & Auction but someone else in your group is sure that this type of event can not be supported financially by residents of your community. Once your team has taken the assessment, the exercises you will be assigned in Stage Four of the Event Toolbox process will either include financial considerations of guests as a large factor in your brainstorming or if these factors are not as relevant to you, those kind of questions and exercises will be downplayed.

1. Help identify preconceived notions about the kind of events that you may be able to hold. This gives each individual the opportunity to lay their assumptions on the table and for the group to collectively address any misconceptions that may be lurking.
2. Narrow Down the Exercises that your group will be assigned to ones that match the resources in your actual community.
   
3. Encourage the expansion of ideas. By curating all of your resources at the start of the brainstorming process in this way, you are encouraging the expansion of ideas within defined parameters and giving your team an equal shot at having the winning idea.

What else should you know?

• The two assessments are attached via one link and should be administered consecutively at the same meeting.
•  Take your time with each question and make sure to listen to all available opinions and ideas to determine the best result.

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