Called volunteer meeting Thursday night. Had grand plans for team building and vision casting.

Seven people showed up. Seven. Out of twenty-three.

Linda fell asleep during my third slide about quarterly objectives. Tom left for soccer pickup. Everyone else stared at phones while I droned on about strategic initiatives.

Then pizza arrived. Everything changed.

We're talking about why formal agendas kill enthusiasm. How PowerPoint presentations make volunteers want to escape. What happens when you abandon your carefully planned meeting and just let people eat and talk.

Plus why people showed up for pizza but stayed for real conversations about actual problems. And how the best meeting happened after I officially ended everything.

Turns out volunteers don't want quarterly updates. They want help with Tommy's weekly meltdowns and parents who show up late expecting miracles.

For leaders whose volunteer meetings feel like torture sessions, coordinators wondering why nobody shows up to important gatherings, and anyone ready to try pizza over PowerPoint.
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