Date: Jun 30, 2003 [ 8: 41: 33]
Subject: Tip of the Week - Business Meeting
© 2003 BCP Harry Shelton Cole
Subject: Tip of the Week - Business Meeting
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Tip of the Week 01/24/97
Business Meeting
Many churches have annual business meetings. What was designed to be a
working tool of cooperation and goal setting has turned into an opportunity
for some carnal people to air their disgruntled attitudes. Fights have
risen from business meetings in the church. With new Christians and
maturing Christians, the church planter can least afford a time with his
people in which people are offending each other. What is one to do?
1) How about calling your annual business meeting your "Annual Vision
Update" focusing in on the year in review and the year ahead?
2) Have an agenda set and allow no spur of the moment motions (good or
bad) to be heard on that basis. Unpreparedness and things not fully
thought out tend to divide people. Little issues are made big on the spur
of the moment and as time passes and the heat subsides, the damage is
already done.
3) Have in place and learn Parliamentary procedure and Roberts Rules of
Order and use them if necessary. That is what they are there for. Not
just to control the meeting but to take control of difficult and awkward
situations.
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