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Strategies to make your team meetings more effective.
Project leaders rarely have the luxury of selecting their ideal team — or even having people who’ve worked together before. To ensure that disparate teams are on the same page, project managers must facilitate formal team interaction. Meetings are the most straightforward tool to keep everyone in sync. But like the project itself, meetings must deliver value or they will be seen as a waste of time, potentially damaging morale and productivity. Here are ways to make sure your meetings produce results.
Attendance, Not Minutes
Many project managers spend time compiling detailed minutes for teamwide distribution after each meeting in order to make sure everyone is in the loop. However, this approach can be inefficient and even detrimental to project success. If team members start to rely on the minutes and skip meetings, issues that could have been resolved quickly through discussion will wait to be resolved off line, costing more time in the long run.
To make attendance more feasible, weekly functional team meetings should run no longer than the time it takes for each team to briefly go over project status. Even if some teams do not have issues or risks to discuss, it is important that they are represented at these meetings because topics shared by other team members may affect them. Well-attended meetings also …
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