Comments on: How to run a meeting that doesn’t suck

By: 5 Sites With Helpful Tips For Running Meetings | Calum Henderson

5 Sites With Helpful Tips For Running Meetings | Calum Henderson — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 12:12:25 +0000

[...] How To Run A Meeting That Doesn’t Suck [...]

By: davemiers

davemiers — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:05:36 +0000

make sure you pass it on!

By: Calum Henderson

Calum Henderson — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:02:50 +0000

Meetings in the eu at Uni can certainly benefit from some of these ideas!

By: davemiers

davemiers — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:32:36 +0000

no worries mikey.

@ben… haha!

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:37:35 +0000

@Michael. At first I thought you said, “We prayed for 3 hours for no discernible gain” !!

By: Mikey Lynch

Mikey Lynch — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:44:50 +0000

Thanks for the post dude. Good stuff.

By: davemiers

davemiers — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:22:14 +0000

@michael – i know what you mean about teachers. having worked as a teacher, many teachers in a meeting are just plain rude! likewise church meetings… it wasn’t uncommon to go for 4 hours!!!

@reuben + AndrewB – thanks for the tip. it’s not #1 on my to read list, but it still makes it on. thanks.

By: AndrewB

AndrewB — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:58:42 +0000

Ditto to Lencioni’s ‘Death by Meeting’!!!! It has revolutionised our church staff meetings at Jannali! Fantastic stuff.

By: reuben

reuben — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:32:15 +0000

If you want more ideas, have a look at 'death by meeting'. It's worth a read! Short, written as a story and the guy has an interesting take on the topic.

By: Michael Jensen

Michael Jensen — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:54:25 +0000

I once worked in a school and a church at the same time.

Now, school teachers are pretty bad in meetings: they talk and talk and talk. They are inefficient almost on principle.

But they understand the value of time.

The meetings at the church were unbelievably wasteful of time. It was like entering another time zone, or crossing an invisible border into another world. We prated on for 3 hours for no discernible gain.

By: davemiers

davemiers — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:42:30 +0000

@mike – good points. from what i’ve read from mikey, sounds like he’d be great with running meetings.

@sam – thanks for the reminder of you earlier post – i like the idea of regularly booking a table in a cafe sam.

By: SamR

SamR — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:29:17 +0000

Blogged on this a while back.

http://www.thefountainside.com/2007/08/15/church-staff-meetings/

By: Mike J

Mike J — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:29:54 +0000

I personally like set length meeting with a solid cut off point.
Our church meetings are like this. Mikey does an awesome job in keeping them cranking.

On the other hand I HATE are meetings at College they drag on for 2 or more hours each week and involve people gossiping about others and blur the line between “hanging out” and business… grrrr