Comments on: Four Areas Church Employees Need to Rethink: Part 1–Meetings http://rhettsmith.com/2009/04/four-areas-church-employees-need-to-rethink-part1-meetings/ Thu, 10 May 2012 14:59:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: rhettsmith http://rhettsmith.com/2009/04/four-areas-church-employees-need-to-rethink-part1-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-7318 rhettsmith Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:43:44 +0000 http://rhettsmith.com/?p=2328#comment-7318 love the countdown timer... love the countdown timer…

]]> By: rhettsmith http://rhettsmith.com/2009/04/four-areas-church-employees-need-to-rethink-part1-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-7317 rhettsmith Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:43:13 +0000 http://rhettsmith.com/?p=2328#comment-7317 Alan, "reply all"...love it. and Google docs is key. Alan,

"reply all"…love it.

and Google docs is key.

]]> By: Check These Out [5/27/09] - GBrenna dot com http://rhettsmith.com/2009/04/four-areas-church-employees-need-to-rethink-part1-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-7194 Check These Out [5/27/09] - GBrenna dot com Wed, 27 May 2009 12:21:01 +0000 http://rhettsmith.com/?p=2328#comment-7194 [...] Meetings [...] [...] Meetings [...]

]]> By: Four Areas Church Employees Need to Rethink: Part 4–People Aren’t Always Thinking About Church…or Your Ministry. http://rhettsmith.com/2009/04/four-areas-church-employees-need-to-rethink-part1-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-7112 Four Areas Church Employees Need to Rethink: Part 4–People Aren’t Always Thinking About Church…or Your Ministry. Wed, 06 May 2009 09:02:04 +0000 http://rhettsmith.com/?p=2328#comment-7112 [...] began talking about the need to rethink our Meetings, our Volunteer Expectations, and our Boundary [...] [...] began talking about the need to rethink our Meetings, our Volunteer Expectations, and our Boundary [...]

]]> By: Four Areas Church Employees Need to Rethink: Part 3–Modeling Boundary Setting http://rhettsmith.com/2009/04/four-areas-church-employees-need-to-rethink-part1-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-7104 Four Areas Church Employees Need to Rethink: Part 3–Modeling Boundary Setting Mon, 04 May 2009 09:00:59 +0000 http://rhettsmith.com/?p=2328#comment-7104 [...] first post was on Meetings and my second post was on Volunteer [...] [...] first post was on Meetings and my second post was on Volunteer [...]

]]> By: Graham http://rhettsmith.com/2009/04/four-areas-church-employees-need-to-rethink-part1-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-7091 Graham Fri, 01 May 2009 10:47:52 +0000 http://rhettsmith.com/?p=2328#comment-7091 Oh meetings... It's the 9:00am staff meetings that get me to work on time... :) Oh meetings… It’s the 9:00am staff meetings that get me to work on time… :)

]]> By: Justin Pardee http://rhettsmith.com/2009/04/four-areas-church-employees-need-to-rethink-part1-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-7089 Justin Pardee Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:49:35 +0000 http://rhettsmith.com/?p=2328#comment-7089 Hey Rhett, Having been a fairly intense volunteer (15+ hrs/week) at my church for several years now I totally appreciate your thoughts... especially as I come to the close of my first month on staff. :) I come from the world of self-employment & hourly billing where time = money = providing for my family/sanity, so I'm definitely used to more structured meetings than I'm finding are standard to certain systems in this organization. Don't get me wrong, the staff have great intentions - just an occasional lack of conscious awareness to the time issue. I've got a fairly large volunteer meeting coming up, and I'm planning to display a massive countdown timer (to the scheduled end time of the meeting) on one of the screens in the room. My hope is that this will relieve some stress as well as create a sense of urgency surrounding our time. Keep up the good work. Hey Rhett,

Having been a fairly intense volunteer (15+ hrs/week) at my church for several years now I totally appreciate your thoughts… especially as I come to the close of my first month on staff. :)

I come from the world of self-employment & hourly billing where time = money = providing for my family/sanity, so I’m definitely used to more structured meetings than I’m finding are standard to certain systems in this organization. Don’t get me wrong, the staff have great intentions – just an occasional lack of conscious awareness to the time issue.

I’ve got a fairly large volunteer meeting coming up, and I’m planning to display a massive countdown timer (to the scheduled end time of the meeting) on one of the screens in the room. My hope is that this will relieve some stress as well as create a sense of urgency surrounding our time.

Keep up the good work.

]]> By: Alan Wilkerson http://rhettsmith.com/2009/04/four-areas-church-employees-need-to-rethink-part1-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-7088 Alan Wilkerson Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:56:34 +0000 http://rhettsmith.com/?p=2328#comment-7088 Good advice Rhett. As a presbyterian it is a somewhat questionable way of doing things [that's my story] but I've used email to our Session to get the group thought about an issue or to even take a vote. Then we record the decision at the next regularly scheduled meeting. About group emails. I remind people to "reply to all" and I often put a time when I have to have answers. I call them, if I haven't heard anything, at least 12 hours prior so they have the ability to check the discussion. I've also found Google documents good for roughing a paper out together as well. Alan Portland Good advice Rhett. As a presbyterian it is a somewhat questionable way of doing things [that's my story] but I’ve used email to our Session to get the group thought about an issue or to even take a vote. Then we record the decision at the next regularly scheduled meeting.

About group emails. I remind people to “reply to all” and I often put a time when I have to have answers. I call them, if I haven’t heard anything, at least 12 hours prior so they have the ability to check the discussion.

I’ve also found Google documents good for roughing a paper out together as well.

Alan
Portland

]]> By: DaveSandell (Dave Sandell) http://rhettsmith.com/2009/04/four-areas-church-employees-need-to-rethink-part1-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-7086 DaveSandell (Dave Sandell) Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:51:22 +0000 http://rhettsmith.com/?p=2328#comment-7086 Yes! Rhett! More! More, Rhett, more!!!!!! MOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!! http://is.gd/vbMj Yes! Rhett! More! More, Rhett, more!!!!!! MOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!! http://is.gd/vbMj

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