Project Warm Up

Gina Abudi is the President of Abudi Consulting Group and a blogger at GinaAbudi.com. She works with Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 organizations in the areas of leadership, project management and process improvement. Gina's book "Best Practices for Managing BPI Projects: Six Steps to Success" will be published by J Ross Publishing on March 15, 2015. Gina is a professional speaker and member of the Global Speaker's Federation. She speaks on the same topics in which she consults and offers training workshops.

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It is important for the project manager and team members to get to know each other before the start of a project, preferably face to face, and even if it is the only time during the project they will be together. If that’s not possible, virtual meetings and portals can also help the team "get together."

One of the most important things a team leader can do is find time to kick off the start of the project with the project team. I’m not talking about Day 1 and the group is together ready to dig in on the project. Prior to the actual start of the project the team should be getting together to get to know each other and learn about the project they are tasked with completing. This post will provide you some methods to kick off the start of the project. They are in the order of preferred to least preferred method.

In addition to allowing the team members to get to know each other; you, as the project lead, would, of course, spend time discussing the project, including: purpose of the project (objectives/goals), business units or divisions involved, project sponsor, stakeholders, budget, timeline, etc.

Face-to-Face Meeting

One of the best ways to get the team together is via a face-to-face meeting. This is the most preferred method.  Sometimes this is difficult when the team includes members from all over the world, but when possible…

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