You must post replies of at least 200 words to each of the two discussion board threads. For each thread, you must support your assertions with at least 3 scholarly citations in APA format as well as include at least 1 biblical integration. Each reply must cite at least 1 scholarly source or include 1 biblical integration. Scholarly resources must come from peer-reviewed journals.
Discussion Board #1
Key to Facilitation: Set a Clear Agenda
Need for an Agenda
A project event or team meeting needs a clear agenda to stay focused and without one the event or meeting will not have a clear purpose or terminal objective and may stray. Starbird and Cavanagh (2011) provided that one key to facilitation is to “set a clear agenda” (loc: 1273). One attribute of Engaged Team Performance is to keep work and data visible, and that includes the “key objectives, decisions, deliverables, and time” for a meeting (Starbird and Cavanagh, 2011, loc; 1273). An agenda is a tool that the facilitator can use to make the intent of the meeting visible before the meeting and guide then use to gu
ide the meeting. The authors identified four aspects of a meeting, and personal experience highlights the impact of having or not having a clear agenda and sticking to it—emphasis on sticking to it.
Other researchers supported the purpose and the use of an agenda. Kauffeld and Lehmann-Willenbrock as cited in Haar, Koeslag-Kreunen, Euwe, and Segers (2017) identified 10 factors in team meetings, which included factors related to goals, clarification through questions and answers, time management, and summarizing. There were some similarities between the authors like setting meeting goals and having meeting objectives. Haar et al. (2017) also commented on Uitdewilligen’s findings that in meetings “team members share their information, discuss what needs to happen next, and decide on an action plan” (p. 219). The USAF (2015) Tongue and Quill mentioned the use of meeting minutes to capture a historical record of the meeting, which is like the summarizing that Haar et al. (2017) found. Meeting minutes can be useful to share a summary with other that were not in attendance.