Running a Training Meeting
By EvangelismCoach
Some of you have told me via email that you are feeling inspired to have regular training meetings for your greeters and all the members of your hospitality ministries.
One of the biggest problems that people are reporting to me is the lack of consistency in their hospitality ministries. One of the best ways to over come that is regular ongoing training.
In this video, I share my thoughts on what needs to happen in a training meeting.
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I shot this little video while on the roof of my building. The cloud cover was causing me to squint perhaps a little too much, but I didn’t have much time left to re-shoot the video.
After seeing what I suggest, what do you suggest would be helpful to cover in a training meeting?
Thank you for this message. We are in the process of restructuring our Welcome Team and will be starting to do training within the next couple of weeks. I am excited to see what others post….
We have a booklet to walk through as a workshop.
We have practical exercises where you actually walk through a scenario.
We notice what we do and should not do.
They laugh at each other and correct themselves so that they are more comfortable with greeting a person.
We are very informal and because we are “Come as you are” that takes a softer approach to people receiving us.
We care about our inner soul not your outer clothes is one of our sayings.
We just started greeter trainer workshops last year, and plan on it being an annual event, aside from when newcomers join the ministry.
First, we cover, “What does God’s word say about Hospitality?”
We do surveys prior to the workshop from previous visitors to get a list of pros and cons. This has been extremely helpful. We also go over basic guidelines(arrival time, guest packets, etc.). And then, we role play. We are planning our next workshop in September.
We’ve just started the training for new greeters/ushers…
We want to improve have a uniformed look and a consistant way of commuincating to each other and the church to maintain a smooth flow during each part of the service.
I’ve been seeing more and more that folks want information on how to start the training process. . Thanks for sharing your ideas with us.
The idea of surveying a few visitors from recent weeks is a great idea that I see more churches implementing.
It’s a spot check, in a sense, rather than a scientific survey. .
Thank again for the wonderful training videos.
Our Church has a monthy average of 125 people in attendence. I have quarterly greeter meetings. If I have a new greeter before it is time for a meeting I do an individual training or the new greeter trains with assistant Head Greeter. I always welcome new ideas from the greeters, which keeps them involved.