The Importance of Having an Agenda

There's always an agenda. If you put material in front of a group of people, they're going to talk about what comes to mind in the absence of God. How do you make sure that you are honoring those different needs and getting all of the voices that need to be weighing in on the conversation to be active? So I'm really a big believer in being clear about not only is everyone's role in the meeting to be engaged and to participate in meeting the objective. But there can be roles, there can be a note taker, there can also be a facilitator or something that I've heard called a process person. And by the way, when I do the whole all