How to facilitate a project meeting
Read on for my helpful guide on how to facilitate a project meeting effectively.
Read on for my helpful guide on how to facilitate a project meeting effectively.
Virtual meetings are a fact of life. These 4 easy tips take only moments to put into practice but will hugely improve the quality of your conference calls and web conferences. Try them out and see what an impact they make on your team, both in terms of boosting the energy in the meeting and in the outcomes from the discussion.
Learn how to engage everyone during a meeting – and if you really can’t make that work, learn some strategies for keeping people as focused as possible while you have them in the room. These are great tips for anyone running meetings with multi-disciplinary teams.
Make it easy to get ready for next week and hit the ground running at work on Monday with these tips for planning ahead. Use Friday afternoon to sort out your inbox and check your upcoming appointments so you can really enjoy the weekend.
There are 4 meeting sins that you should definitely avoid. Gerry Lewis’s book Shine discusses what they are and how to avoid them.
Here’s an introduction to project steering groups as part of the governance framework so you can get yours set up and working on your project.
Find out how to run awesome meetings with these habits that will see you boost productivity and focus your meetings on what’s really important.
I spend a lot of time on conference calls, especially now I am lucky enough to work from home. If I’m completely honest, I know how to use my mute button without even looking at the phone. It’s useful for blowing my nose and slurping tea but also for making sure other people can’t hear…
Time spent in such meetings is only wasted if they are unproductive and don’t have any actionable outcome. Learn about how to improve the efficiency of your meetings in 4 simple steps. Proper preparation and follow up will help you streamline your meetings.
Take a page from Agile and have better, more efficient meetings with your team, even virtual ones. You can learn how to here.
Download a free agenda template for a lessons learned or post-implementation meeting. Great time-saver for your project closure work and it’s also something you can use as you go through your project to make sure you are regularly discussing and documenting the lessons you are learning along the way.
Presentations of project information to your peers and the people in the C-Suite (CEOs, CFOs, the Board) can be very different. Leigh Espy shares what is different, what kind of information to include and how to present it.