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How many times have you sat in a meeting and ended up just starring off into “Neverland.” Within moments you are running around with the lost boys jumping across expanses, and fighting with your sword against the evil pirates. In
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Wow, that sounds like "Death by Meeting" to me! Maybe that would be an improvement for some ministries, but the staff at my church officially meets for only an hour each week. My youth staff only meets together about three times a year: Christmas party, fall ministry start-up meeting, summer ministry wrap-up meeting. With 60-some adult youth workers, we've found other ways to communicate instead of meeting all the time.
I understand what you are saying. However, the larger the organization the more the meetings you need to have in order to function properly not to mention well. This meeting style does not go into my volunteer staff. It is primarily for full time staff who have to work as a team in order to accomplish what is in front of them.
Well, my church has 13 paid staff and I have 64 "official" adult youth volunteers. Communication is essential, but fortunately that can take place outside of meetings, too.
Please understand that what I was saying had nothing to do with the size of your church or the team that you work with. It is just that so many of us are having these meetings off record and just do not recognize it. I believe that what Lencioni has to share will help any organization to function well if they will adapt what he has written then we can become more effective, use our time well and have productive meetings.
Oh yeah, totally. We have lots of "off the record meetings" where I just pop in someone's office to figure something out or shoot out an email to run ideas by some people.