Comments on: A Rhythm of Learning/Planning/Executing

By: Missional Renaissance Gathering in Dallas « faithmaps blog

Missional Renaissance Gathering in Dallas « faithmaps blog — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:37:23 +0000

[...] the community and they and the rest of the LN team did a great job. I had earlier complained in A Rhythm of Learning/Planning/Executing that so many groups miss the opportunity of providing folks time to strategize how they will [...]

By: Mark Batterson Goes Large « faithmaps blog

Mark Batterson Goes Large « faithmaps blog — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:51:20 +0000

[...] time ago, I complained in A Rhythm of Learning/Planning/Executing about how we tend to rely too much on the dispersal of information at such events. I suggested that [...]

By: Missional Renaissance Leadership Community « faithmaps blog

Missional Renaissance Leadership Community « faithmaps blog — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:24:04 +0000

[...] This particular community is being facilitated by Reggie and Eric Swanson, LN’s Director for Externally-Focused Churches. Eric and Reggie did a good job at providing great content for the participating churches. But what I appreciated the most was the time they built into our two-day gathering for the churches to listen to each other and to plan specifically what they plan to do to operationalize learnings after leaving Dallas. faithmaps’ readers will recall I had complained earlier this year about such gatherings where creating this kind of space isn’…. [...]

By: Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:35:55 +0000

Mcghee’s book uses almost the same system that Allen uses except she integrates it into Outlook ( with a few small changes). I read Getting things done and thought is was great. I’m working through Take back your life and it is better. More practical. If Allen is the philosophy Mcghee is the real world practical approach. I have actually set up Outlook the way that she suggests and have begun the process. Lots of work but very worth it.

By: snshields

snshields — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:57:43 +0000

dave, thanks for reaching out, your kind comments, and for mentioning Mcghee’s book. I hadn’t heard of that but I do use Outlook as my Task and Calendar Management Systems so I’ll have to give it a look. Allen’s Getting Things Done is also a fantastic resource and I’m almost done working through it.

By: Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:49:09 +0000

Stephen-
Very helpful. I live often in the world of conferences. Though not often in the context of team at those conferences. Sometimes I’m in that context but more often in an individual context. You make great points about the team making action points that hopefully will result in personal execution. I also think that teams need to take the initiative to create their own process time.

I absolutely love your white paper on “Meetings that make a difference.” It has helped me and my leadership of my team as we seek to get things done as a team. Using your agenda system has created an environment of accountability that helps us accomplish things.

The hard part is helping people with the personal execution of delegated tasks. Frankly I have trouble with that myself sometimes. I have recently read a book called “Take back your Life” by Sally Mcghee that has been revolutionary in this area. It is based on a system that uses an information management system (Microsoft Outlook) to help you collect information and get things done.

Unfortunately too often we just expect people to suck it up and be productive when we have not helped them to be productive. This book has helped me tremendously. I’m still a work in progress but at least I now have a system of managing and limiting my inputs which helps me to manage and fulfill my commitments.

I really believe that if we can help people on the personal level it will translate the team getting things done and increasing productivity as well as success.

I highly reccomend Stephen’s paper as well as the book!!