Craig Schafer

Craig is senior pastor at St Marks Anglican Church, Pennant Hills. He is married to Julie and they have two daughters and a mad Labrador. When he isn’t talking with people about Jesus, Craig likes to scuba dive. He drinks way too much Pepsi Max.

Making meetings effective: Facilitation techniques

  • Craig Schafer
  • 18 May 2015

In my last article, I outlined how a good agenda and minutes can make meetings a better investment of people’s time. The effectiveness of meetings can also be improved by adopting some basic facilitation techniques. These can also help to minimise non-creative conflict. There is nothing wrong with conflict per

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Making meetings effective: Minutes and agenda

  • Craig Schafer
  • 11 May 2015

Before entering Moore College, I worked for six years as a management consultant for the world’s largest management consulting organisation. Life was an endless series of meetings where time was very literally money. If you put six people in a meeting for two hours, you had just spent at least

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Evangelism is like Scuba diving

  • Craig Schafer
  • 14 November 2013

My wife and I are novice divers and novice evangelists. We’ve been doing both of them for a while now, but always feel that there is a lot more to learn in both areas. And, as it turns out, I’ve noticed some similarities between diving and evangelism. For a

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