“You know, for people who spend so much time in meetings, you sure don’t run them very well. A 9:00 am start time should mean 9:00 am! If not, change the start time!” I wrote. I meant it. I couldn’t help it. I was finally so frustrated that I wrote it FOUR MONTHS IN A ROW under the “what can we do to improve our meetings” category on the comments card at the monthly meeting. It all started so innocently…

The droning of a monotone voice from the front of the room. The meeting leader that sits in the middle of the floor and asks, “So what do you guys want to talk about tonight? Two things most of us will avoid like the plague!

Let’s make our campus club and organization meetings fun and interesting or just put us all out of our misery and stop having them! Here are a couple of my time-tested ideas to give things a kick in the pants.