WORKING ON A TASK FORCE

 BY ANIMA SINHA                                           Task forces generally have 50 to 100 members. One hundred people already have signed up to work on the Diversity and Inclusion group; nearly 40 have signed up for the Measures and Metrics group, according to Webster.
Task forces are broken into subgroups. An HR task force on staffing standards that has 161 members, for example, is broken into three subgroups of nearly 55 members each.
The full task force meets monthly, usually late in the business day, depending on where the bulk of the members are located. Meetings are conducted virtually or as conference calls using web 2.0 technology. The task forces have a presence on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Ning.
Each task force will run 13 to 18 months. At the end of that time, a task force member decides whether to continue working with the group, join another task force, become an observer with no voting privileges or end involvement.