Episode 116: Seven Tips for Running Effective Project Meetings

This week The PMO Podcast™ Featured Story presents, "Seven Tips for Running Effective Project Meetings", presented by Mark Perry (about Mark), host of The PMO Podcast™. As a project manager, you have to conduct meetings all the time. Do you conduct them effectively? And are you able to continue to conduct project meetings effectively as the project progresses or does comfort and familiarity set in with the project team resulting in a little bit of lackadaisical behavior. You will do doubt want to maintain project team morale, make sure that the project is progressing as expected, and ensure that project issues are identified and resolved. Project meetings are one of the most important and common ways of doing this. So how can you ensure that your project meetings are effective? Well, today we have a few tips that can serve as an excellent checklist for your project meetings. The PMO Podcast™ Points Memo presents, “Be the special teacher." Have you heard the story of the special teacher? Years ago, a professor at John Hopkins gave a group of his graduate students an assignment. He instructed them to go to the slums of New York, take 200 boys, between the ages of 12 and 16, and investigate their background and environment. Then develop a prediction of their chances of success for the future. Twenty-five years later another group of graduate students was given the job of testing the prediction. What was the shocking discovery? Hear the story of the special teacher. The PMO Podcast™ Mailbag answers a listener question about project termination. The PMO Podcast™ is sponsored by BOT International, the provider of Processes On Demand, a PMO Setup solution used by more than 1,000 companies.Request a Demo LoginThe PMO Podcast™ is a trademark of BOT International. The PMO Podcast™ and its RSS feed are copyright © by BOT International 2013. All rights reserved.