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Making Meetings Matter
There's no shortage of meetings in project management, but there's often a lack of effectiveness in them. Here are six field-tested pointers on when and how to use facilitated work sessions to accelerate progress and improve quality throughout the project lifecycle.
Over the past five years, as Jan Means and Tammy Adams collaborated on consulting projects, they drew attention for achieving great meeting results. Their facilitated work sessions were credited for accelerating project goals, smoothing out misunderstandings and encouraging communication among critical project partners. "We've been doing these work sessions on our own, in one way or another, for the past 20 years, as we worked in different aspects of business and helped project teams in various capacities," says Means, a certified professional facilitator and co-founder of Resource Advantage, a business process innovation consultancy based in Melrose, N.Y.
Many clients asked the duo for books on the topic of facilitated work sessions, Adams recalls, but neither woman could find a good text to recommend. So they decided to collaborate on one themselves. In 2005, Adams, the managing partner of Chaosity, a project facilitation consultancy based in Tempe, Ariz., and Means published Facilitating the Project Lifecycle: Skills & Tools to Accelerate Progress for Project Managers, Facilitators, and Six Sigma Project …
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