Six Weeks From Now,
Your Staff Meeting
Will Be Different.
A guided challenge for church teams who are tired of the meeting everyone shows up to and nobody looks forward to. We will work on it together, one piece at a time.
Starts Monday, September 28. Registration closes Friday, September 25.
A note from Michael
The Highest-Leverage Hour You Control
You already know something is off. You walk out of staff meeting and you cannot quite say what got decided. There is no agenda, or someone has to build it fresh every week. The devotional is great, but it runs long and you run out of time for problem solving. Most of the updates could have been an email.
Plus two or three people are talking and the rest of the room is quiet, quietly wondering if they need to be there. Nobody complains out loud. Your team is too kind for that, and you are the boss. So the meeting stays on the calendar, week after week, and everyone does their real work later.
Here is the good news: most of what is wrong in a church is hard to fix. You cannot make people show up. You cannot manufacture volunteers. You cannot force a budget to grow.
The staff meeting is different. It is already on the calendar. Everyone is already coming. You just need to make the hour really count.
Change what happens in that room and you change what your team pays attention to all week. Same hour. Different results.
Michael Lukaszewski
Founder, Alignify
Is this for you?
You run a staff meeting and you have suspected for a while it is not working
You have tried to fix it before, and it held for two weeks before drifting back
Your team is small enough that wasted hours actually hurt
You want your goals in front of your team more than once a quarter
You are willing to ask your team what they honestly think, and hear the answer
This is not for you if you are looking for a course to watch. There is homework every week, and the homework happens in your actual staff meeting. If you are not going to run it, do not join.
Six Weeks to a Better Staff Meeting
We will change one thing a week, in the meeting you are already having, and let each piece settle before adding the next.
Week 1
S is for start with goals.
Before you change anything, your whole team rates your current staff meeting, one to ten, independently. Not your guess at what they think, their actual number. That is your baseline. Then you make one change: your three priorities go at the top of the meeting you already run, instead of getting whatever time is left.
Week 2
T is for take sixty seconds.
Introduce a written check-in before the meeting and kill the round-robin. Sixty seconds per person, and this is the week people report getting thirty or forty minutes back.
Week 3
A is for agenda stays the same.
Build one standing agenda you never rebuild again: goals, scorecard, issues, action items, wins and kudos. Same shape every week, so anyone on your team could run it.
Week 4
F is for finish on time.
Put a clock on each section, not just the meeting. Find out where the ninety minutes actually go, which is almost never where you think. Live office hours this week if you want them, recorded either way.
Week 5
F is for fully solve one thing.
Build an issues list, rank it, and work the top one to a decision, a name, and a date using a three-step method called IDS. One decided problem a week is fifty a year.
Week 6
Score it again and fine-tune
Choose How You Join
Two ways to take the challenge
The Challenge Only
Per church. Your whole staff participates with no ongoing commitment.
- One live office hours session with Michael in week 4, recorded
- A short video each week
- The standing agenda template
- The written check-in format
- The issues list
- A cohort of other teams doing it at the same time
Starts Monday, September 28. Registration closes Friday, September 25.
Alignify + Challenge
Subscribe to Alignify and the Staff Meeting Challenge is included at no extra cost.
- Full Alignify goal and meeting platform
- The Staff Meeting Challenge included at no extra cost
- Create unlimited goals, teams, and meetings
- Live meeting agenda, timer, and IDS process
- Ongoing coaching resources and templates
Starts Monday, September 28. Registration closes Friday, September 25. Cancel anytime.
Already an Alignify customer? The Challenge is included with your subscription at no additional cost. Check your email or reply and we will get you in.
Your Next Staff Meeting Is Happening Either Way.
Six weeks from now it can look exactly like it does today, or it can be the meeting your team actually wants to be in. Same hour. Different results.
Starts Monday, September 28. Registration closes Friday, September 25.