Meetings, Meetings, Meetings

Meetings matter. Your participation in meetings is often the most visible aspect of your role as a project manager. Your ability to manage meetings and use them to your advantage will make a tremendous difference in the success of the project.

We'll start with a cautionary tale about how not to conduct a meeting, and use the takeaway points from that story to discuss issues related to running a successful meeting. Beyond general advice, we'll cover a few specific types of meetings that you are likely to encounter as a project manager, such as a project kickoff meeting.

We include tips on how to run a great meeting and how to write an agenda. To wrap up, we talk about how—wait for it—to wrap up a meeting.