Archive Monthly Archives: September 2013
How to Run an Internal Kick-off Meeting
New! On Twitter? Like quotes? Click to join our beta trial. This article is about the project kick-off meeting, a meeting with your team only—no client—and gives the reasons why such a meeting should be on your radar. I’ve also included some suggestions on what topics to cover during the meeting. Another Meeting! Like we […]
Read More »Avoiding Meeting-time Ping Pong
You can relate, I’m sure. An email the other day said “…let’s meet on the phone to discuss, let me know when next week is good for you.” I had this strange feeling that meeting-time ping pong was about to start. What is meeting-time ping pong? This is my name for the situation that occurs […]
Read More »Why You Need To Tell Your Client What You Are Doing
This may seem obvious. You are hired to do something because you have skills that are better or faster than what your client can do on his own. Or, you have skills your client simply doesn’t have. Once hired, it is easy to assume your client “knows” what you’ll be doing. After all, you were […]
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