Make Your Weekly Staff Meeting the Best Hour on the Calendar
A free live training for church leaders on the five reasons staff meetings go flat, the STAFF framework that fixes them, and a standing agenda you can run in next week's meeting.
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Why Staff Meetings Stink (And How to Fix Yours)
Free to attend. No obligation.
Does This Sound Familiar?
Your children's director has a list of what she'd rather be doing with those ninety minutes. Your worship pastor is texting during the announcements. Nobody says anything, because the person running the meeting also signs off on their review.
The devotional that was supposed to run five minutes runs twenty. Next week's meeting picks up where last week's left off, with no real movement in between. That's why "this meeting could have been an email" is a saying. Most teams keep the meeting anyway, because it's the only time everyone's in the same room, and it feels like community.
Only 1 in 5 leaders has ever been trained to run a meeting. Seminary taught you to preach and to counsel people. It didn't teach you this.
780 hours a year
Ten people, ninety minutes, fifty-two weeks.
1 in 5 leaders
Have ever been trained to run a meeting.
39% of church leaders
Rarely or never discuss their goals in any meeting.
What You'll Walk Away With
Why Staff Meetings Stink
An honest read on why yours isn't working, and which of the five reasons is actually yours.
The STAFF Framework
A five-part system that spells out exactly how to run the meeting you already have on the calendar, differently.
A Standing Agenda You Don't Have to Build
Same shape, same order, every week, so anyone on your team could run it, not just you.
A Way to Actually Solve a Problem in the Room
A three-step method for working an issue to a real decision, instead of discussing it for the third week in a row.
Plus: everyone who attends gets the free templates and resources — the standing agenda, the framework worksheet, and more — ready to use in your very next meeting.
If You Run a Staff Meeting at a Church, This Was Built for You.
It doesn't matter how many people are in the room or how formal the agenda is. If you're responsible for a team and an hour of their week, this applies directly to you. That includes if your "staff" is four volunteers and a part-time bookkeeper. Everything here works at that size, and it matters more, because you have fewer hours to waste.
Senior or Lead Pastor
You run the meeting and everyone watches how you run it. This gives you a better way to spend the hour.
Executive Pastor or Operations Lead
You're usually the one who inherited the format from whoever came before you. This gives you a reason to change it.
Solo Pastor with a Small or Volunteer Team
Same five letters, shorter meeting. This works at four people just as well as forty.
Children's, Worship, or Ministry Director
You sit through the parts of the meeting that aren't about you. This shows you what a meeting looks like when it isn't wasting your time either.
A note from your host
Hey, I'm Michael.
When I was pastoring a church, I was in charge of the staff meeting and I would have said it was fine.
It really wasn't.
Most of it was a report with everyone waiting their turn to say what they were working on.
If I ever stopped to do the math at how much collective time this was taking or how much money this was costing, I might have implemented some changes earlier.
When I talk to pastors and church staff about their team meetings, most of them admit they really aren't effective. Everyone generally likes each other but they admit the actual meeting could be a little more productive.
It's not because the people in the meeting aren't called or committed. It's the meeting itself isn't formatted properly.
So this training is the fix I wish someone taught me all those years ago. It's called Why Staff Meetings Stink (And How to Fix Yours), and on September 9th I'm walking through the five reasons meetings go bad, a framework called STAFF that fixes the underlying issues, and a way to actually solve a problem in the room.
I'd love to have you there. Register below, show up on the 9th, and you'll walk away with something you can run in next week's meeting.
See you then,
Michael
Co-Founder, Alignify
Run a Meeting Your Team Actually Wants to Attend.
Join us September 9th for a free, practical training built specifically for church leaders who run staff meetings.
Free to attend. No obligation. Just a better way to run the meeting you already have.