Part three of an epic three-part series. (See also Part 1, Part 2.)
We left off in this series as I, Luke, had just seized the throne of “chairman of the board” at Abbott Family Music. My first order of business was to revamp the way the meeting was conducted. I was going to prepare a detailed agenda, like my friends over at the CBA do, and to make it complete I was going to ask for agenda items before the meeting. So, three days beforehand, I pulled the following card out of my tickler file and distributed it to my fellow Abbotts:
As it turns out, Kyle didn’t even read it. Why? The writing. It was so fancy, he assumed it didn’t say anything. He figured the whole “invitation card” thing was a joke on my part. *sigh*.
Nevertheless, I did prepare a complete, two-page agenda for the meeting, and ran the meeting with it. And it worked, and worked well. One unexpected benefit was that there was a bit less to write in the way of minutes, as I didn’t need to write headlines for most of the discussion topics as they were in the agenda. So, why then did I fire myself from the job of secretary? Stay tuned… for part four.
