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GOVERNANCE & MINISTRY
by Dan Hotchkiss
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Four Questions to Ask before Every Meeting
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If you dread meetings, don’t despair! Four key questions can help almost any meeting to be better focused, more satisfying and productive. You can ask these questions in advance—or you can ask them shortly after the meeting has begun. Here are the four questions: 1. What is the purpose of this meeting? A meeting with an unclear purpose often is an aimless meeting. Stating a meeting’s purpose in advance can help shape almost everything about it: the agenda, the invitation list, the information to collect ahead of time. Best of all, a purpose statement helps you know when you are finished and can go home! One way of thinking about a meeting’s purpose is to identify what you hope the meeting will produce. Most meetings fall into one of several categories, based on the desired outcome. Ideally, each meeting should belong to just one category, even if the agenda consists
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