Most church staff meetings drift. They run long, cover the calendar, and end without anyone sure what changed. So we gathered everything we've learned about running them better into one place: a training you can watch tonight, a guide for your one-on-ones, and articles on running better meetings.
A quick walkthrough of a real staff meeting, from opening the agenda to wrapping up with clear next steps.
Almost every struggling staff meeting has one of these problems. Most have two or three.
The meeting exists because it's Tuesday. Nobody can say what it's for, so it turns into a calendar read-through.
The most important work sits last on the agenda, and urgent things eat the time before you get there.
The person running the meeting enjoys it most. Everyone else waits it out.
Updates, brainstorming, problem solving and relationships all crammed into the same hour.
Decisions get made and forgotten. Next week you have the same conversation again.
The five reasons church staff meetings go flat, the STAFF framework that fixes them, and a standing agenda anyone on your team could run.
Want the slides and the full agenda? Open the full training page.
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A standing agenda built around your three goals, weekly check-ins, and an issues list that keeps follow-through visible. One flat price for your whole team.
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