The Project Meeting Facilitator
Facilitation Skills to Make the Most of Project Meetings
Tammy Adams, Jan Means, and Michael S. Spivey
Have you ever been involved in a project that didn't require a meeting? Neither have we. Well-run project meetings allow teams to get through the maze of distractions and obstacles to achieve results. Unfortunately, many project meetings aren't well-run — they are viewed, by team members, as unproductive, tedious, wastes of precious time. But you can change that.
The Project Meeting Facilitator contains practical techniques and practices that will help you facilitate your meetings more effectively, transforming them into well-planned, well-managed journeys that engage the team while achieving the intended goals.
What Readers Are Saying
"For anyone thrown into the stormy world of managing project meetings and herding humans, The Project Meeting Facilitator provides the definitive survival kit to enable the preparation, management, and successful achievement of results from the necessary evil of project meetings. Tammy Adams, Jan Means, and Michael Spivey have combined their years of experience in real-world facilitation and teaching to provide any facilitator with a 'Who, What, When, and When Not' guide, supported by real tools, examples, and pitfalls."
"The Project Meeting Facilitator is focused on traditional project meeting facilitation techniques but is easily applied in more iterative approaches like Agile, Lean, or Design-Build methodologies."
"Simply the most useful reference book available today for project managers."
"This is an excellent resource for everyone from the novice to expert project manager using a non-directive but comprehensively structured facilitative approach."
About the Authors
Tammy Adams, B.S., CPF, CQM | Janet Means, M.S., CPF | Michael S. Spivey, M.A., CPF, PMP
Tammy Adams and Jan Means are independent consultants and Certified Professional Facilitators with years of experience in guiding project teams to produce key project deliverables. They combine their years of experience in hands-on project management, process design, supporting technology design, and group facilitation to bring proven practical assistance to companies who need to improve their ability to execute and internalize change.