Friday, January 12, 2007

Death By Meeting

Mark Batterson posted some excellent thoughts today on Meeting Effectiveness. The whole post is certainly worth taking a look at, but in particular, here are his 5 Keys:

#1 Start Every Meeting by Sharing Wins! This puts you in a positive frame of mind. Don't under celebrate what God is doing!

#2 Do an occasional Offsite Meeting: Change of Pace + Change of Place = Change of Perspective

#3 Don't talk corporately about what can be handled individually! If you talk about something that not everybody needs to know about you're wasting their time. And the larger your staff the more time you're wasting!

#4 Cut Your Agenda in Half. The more you talk about the less you accomplish!

#5 Make sure everything you talk about lands on a to-do list. Make sure someone is responsible for everything you talk about or it'll end up on the next meeting agenda and cause twice the frustration!

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