Lodges which struggle with efficient lodge executive committee (LEC) meetings may benefit from using a simple, effective agenda. An agenda will help keep the meeting on topic, and will manage the participants’ expectations regarding the course of the meeting.

There is a sample LEC agenda among other LEC materials linked in our LEC Toolkit. If your lodge doesn’t use an agenda, try adapting this one for your own use. Email it to your participants ahead of time to give them a sense of the upcoming business. Print out a copy for each participant and have them ready when participants arrive. The lodge secretary should retain a copy for including with the lodge minutes. The lodge chief can also make a separate agenda, called an “extended agenda” with additional notes and talking points to remind him of topics to cover. The extended agenda is the lodge chief’s personal agenda and need not be distributed.