Do your campus clubs and organizations see a drop-off in meeting attendance throughout the year? It is probably because of boring meetings which are typically characterized by the droning on of a monotone voice from the front of the room or the meeting leader who sits in the middle of the floor and asks, “So what do you guys want to talk about tonight?”
As part of running better campus clubs and organizations, let’s make sure our meetings are fun and interesting. If you can’t do this, just put us all out of our misery and stop having them!
If you are committed to improving your meetings, here are a few of my time-tested ideas to kick things up a notch.
- Start on time. End on time. People’s time is important. Drop the, “I’m going to wait a few minutes until more people arrive.” Start NOW! Don’t punish the people who arrived on time. Start now and finish on time. If you run over time, expect people to start looking around, clock watching, texting each other – doing everything, except paying attention!
- Have an agenda – and stick to it! Pass it out or put it up on a screen where everyone can see it. Get lots of participation via different speakers, but use your agenda to stay on track and limit discussion to the topic at hand. Talking about your plans for Saturday night should take place outside of the meeting.
- Get everyone together for a productive meeting. Recite the Pledge of Allegiance, read a humorous story from any number of resources, sing a school song, or share a motivational quote.” This gets the group interested and focused on something aside from the meeting topics and gets everyone on the same page.
Running your meetings well is an important ingredient to the overall success of your campus club or organization. And it’s not just all about sticking to Robert’s Rules of Order. Well-run doesn’t have to mean boring!
Want more ways to run better more fun meetings? Click on my Fun and Exciting Meetings program to find out how I can show all of your campus’ clubs and organization to make their meetings more interesting and better attended.
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