LORI WILSONRETIRED - Technical Project Manager| RETIRED - LifePoint HealthClarkston, Wa, United States
I am building a presentation to share at my local PMI chapter in a few months. The presentations is on Effective Meetings. The topics I've addressed so far in the presentation include: Sending out an agenda in advance, appropriate amount and style of communication, take some subjects offline, take/distribute timely and clear minutes with action items, your PM leadership style/encoding/decoding, your influence and how to build your reputation, are the right people at your meetings? Stop/let/make/help - how are the people sitting in the chairs contributing? Protecting time, combining meetings when possible, let team out of the meeting early to return to work when appropriate, meeting type alternatives (phone, Skype, in person, etc), inspiring your team and team building ideas. The advantages of taking minutes during the meeting for efficiency, how to deal with negativity, ensuring our projects create efficiencies vs. adding complexity. Have I forgotten anything? Is there anything you would like me to consider on this topic? Saving Changes...
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Jan 19, 2017 6:48 AM
Replying to Drew Craig
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Yes, please share your presentation experience. I would be interested in seeing the presentation if you were willing to. Many great points shared. From my perspective
- restrict attendees to those required,
- consider those that need to remain informed, though not required in the meeting,
- cater to the audience, keep notes succinct and centralized with a hyperlink - SharePoint (Maria, are you surprised?) :)
me too! i do echo Andrew here;
may be you could contribute your presentation afterwards as a deliverable here at pm.com as well?!
or may be you even doing a webinar based on your presentation here at pm.com?! how about that?
back to topic:
You already got a lot of great inputs here and Meetings are a wide area, i guess.
Maybe fortuity but i just got a mail from the great Elizabeth Harrins blog (Girls Guide to PM); - i do love her blog btw - and yes, it is about Meetings and includes some very interesting links which might be interesting for you too; here we go:
wow, this is really cool, i am thinking about to put the cost of every meeting from now on within the invitation and also calculate it within the project budget in future.
@Anupam, yes, this is the article that I found the calculator. Thank you for sharing!
Anytime
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1 reply by Drew Craig
Jan 20, 2017 6:34 AM
Drew Craig
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Yes, thanks for the share Anupam.
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LORI WILSONRETIRED - Technical Project Manager| RETIRED - LifePoint HealthClarkston, Wa, United States
Jan 18, 2017 8:37 PM
Replying to Cliff Gardner
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Sergio,
You've touched on a key part of every meeting I plan these days—cost. In my experience, this is one of the most commonly overlooked factors but it matters. If you don't carefully plan and structure your meetings using many of the topics Lori outlines, you can end up leaving a meeting that costs the company (and maybe your project) thousands of dollars with no decisions, action items, or clear understanding of what comes next.
Lori,
I feel as if you have a comprehensive list and hope the presentation goes well. One thing that might be worth covering near the end is the fact that sometimes the most effective meeting is the one that never occurs.
Hi Cliff: I really liked your point about sometimes the most effective meeting is the one that never occurs. You are exactly on point! Thanks for bringing that up. I think I will add that to my presentation. Saving Changes...
LORI WILSONRETIRED - Technical Project Manager| RETIRED - LifePoint HealthClarkston, Wa, United States
Jan 18, 2017 10:10 PM
Replying to Anupam
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Hello Lori,
Not much to add, most of the points already covered. Adding to @Maria, here are few more links you can consider -
Project HEADWAY: Managing the Team Status Updates: Making It More Than A Bored Meeting - Featuring Craig Curran-Morton PMP
Good Luck!! & Please let us know how the presentation went.
Thank you for your notes, for replying to this post and for making me feel supported. It is important for all of us to support each other as PM's and that is one of the things I appreciate the most about this website!
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1 reply by Anupam
Jan 19, 2017 9:29 PM
Anupam
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No problem. Happy to help, Lori
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LORI WILSONRETIRED - Technical Project Manager| RETIRED - LifePoint HealthClarkston, Wa, United States
Jan 19, 2017 6:48 AM
Replying to Drew Craig
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Yes, please share your presentation experience. I would be interested in seeing the presentation if you were willing to. Many great points shared. From my perspective
- restrict attendees to those required,
- consider those that need to remain informed, though not required in the meeting,
- cater to the audience, keep notes succinct and centralized with a hyperlink - SharePoint (Maria, are you surprised?) :)
Hi Andrew: I would be happy to share my presentation experience - it will be on April 18th at the INW PMI Chapter. I would be happy to post the presentation, I just need to figure out how to that. Thank you for the points you listed. I really appreciated them all.
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2 replies by Drew Craig and Vincent Guerard
Jan 19, 2017 9:17 PM
Vincent Guerard
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Why not propose the presentation for a webinar here!
I would make a point on who really need to attend a meeting.
Jan 20, 2017 6:33 AM
Drew Craig
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Thank you Lori.
And if you presented here as a webinar, I would definitely participate. Keep us posted.
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LORI WILSONRETIRED - Technical Project Manager| RETIRED - LifePoint HealthClarkston, Wa, United States
Jan 18, 2017 1:26 PM
Replying to Mayte Mata Sivera
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Hi Lory, It seems a complete agenda to build your presentation, there are a lot of great questions and options to discuss during the presentation.
Allow me to ask you one question. How long are you planning for this presentation?
I've seen that you had participated in the discussion that I've posted yesterday. Anyway, I include here for the people interested in the topics about meetings.
Also, I've checked the on-demand webinars and there are great contributions about meetings. You only need to use the search content and filter by webinar.
Hope it helps and good luck
Maria, I just had an opportunity to read the article you sent the link on about MEETINGS ARE JUST NOT WORTH THE TIME by Sean Whitaker. I agree with Sean's remarks and that is why I wanted to put together this presentation on making sure our meetings are effective. Thank you so much for sharing his article with me. It really resonated with me! The items he listed should be included in our ground rules as we set up recurring meetings. Great reminders!
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1 reply by Mayte Mata Sivera
Jan 19, 2017 5:26 PM
Mayte Mata Sivera
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Was @Anupam who shared with me this amazing article.
Maria, I just had an opportunity to read the article you sent the link on about MEETINGS ARE JUST NOT WORTH THE TIME by Sean Whitaker. I agree with Sean's remarks and that is why I wanted to put together this presentation on making sure our meetings are effective. Thank you so much for sharing his article with me. It really resonated with me! The items he listed should be included in our ground rules as we set up recurring meetings. Great reminders!
Was @Anupam who shared with me this amazing article.
Lori:
You have a full presentation; I'd add in a few items:
Types of Meetings and Your Audience: Technical Team Meetings vs Sponsor Meeting vs a Standup Meeting (15 min)
Icebreaker: Have an icebreaker at special meetings
Facilitation Techniques: PM should have some basic facilitation skills to keep meetings on track.
