For the past few years, I’ve had the privilege of assisting one of our pastors in facilitating soft skills modules for seminary students at our church through a NXTGEN Pastors Cohort. Recently, we covered the module “How to Run a Meeting”.
Attending poorly organized and managed meetings “weakens me”, and to be honest, it can be rare when we attend a well-run meeting. The bad news is that I’ve attended a lot of meetings at work, in professional organizations and church. Marcus Buckingham defines an activity that weakens us as one that drains us, bores us and is something on our calendars that we don’t look forward to. For many of us, meetings fall into that category. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Patrick Lencioni has said:  “Bad meetings are the birthplace of unhealthy organizations and good meetings are the origin of cohesion, clarity and communication. Your meetings are a barometer of everything else.” Continue reading →