Reports on Meetings

Learnings from Staff Meetings

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Clear agenda with flexibility in discussion

Student-oriented philosophy
Regular evaluation for events
Clear distributions in the team works with overlapping areasbe open to help others
Open to questions
Comfortable environment
Sharing as a significant part
Caring staffs personal spiritual life
Leaving time to pray for students needs

Learnings from Faculty Meetings

a. Focusing on needs of faculty and students
b. Spending a good amount of time praying for those needs and knowing the core of
education in spiritual level
c. Relax, comfortable environment
d. Time-management: to schedule the meetings at lunch hour, which also shows personal
sacrifices
e. Open to guest, but keep confidential on some issuesasking them to leave from the
discussions
f. Clear Agendaon coming events and reviewing previous past events
g. Asking for announcement from individual faculty
h. Encouraging faculties with rewarding words
i. Time flexibilityhaving longer time period scheduled for the meeting and leaving room
for changes and unexpected things
Reflection
Flexibility & Personal Caring are big challenges and learnings to me. Being a task-oriented
person, efficiency is more important to me. I usually do not expect flexibility on time issue, and
will utilize the time set for meetings well without wasting them. Therefore, setting meeting
time period longer than the actual time is not on my normal thinking scope, although I would
have a flexible agenda leaving some free time for unexpected things. I think flexibility is a very
important element in leading a meeting, which I have to learn.
Also I see meetings as an objective event, a time to solve problems, to evaluate events, to
clarify/distribute tasks, etc. I would do caring after meetings or other times. The reasons to do so
are: not wanting to waste others time and not wanting to make others vulnerable. But through
attending different meetings, I realized caring and sharing personal needs during meetings are

very important especial at a Bible school setting. But being respectful, caring, and not forceful
are super important. Sharing should be a time to care and encourage each other, to strengthen
relationship and fellowship, and to pray and worship God. It should not be a time to make others
uncomfortable.
What I would put it into the meeting I lead:

If the meeting needs 40-50 minutes, set it as one and half hour;
Hand out the clear agenda to every one
Start the meeting off with praises & prayer request;
Ask two to three to pray for the needs
Then bring the issues needed to be discussed
Take time for final thoughts
Close with prayer

Meeting Philosophy
Meetings are held to strengthen team relationship & fellowship, to serve the needed more
effectively, to set appropriate strategy to reach team goal, and to glory and honor God.