As a project manager, you’ll need to oversee various types of meetings. When poorly planned they burn time and cause frustration within the project team. You can master your skills by understanding the components of each meeting in the project lifecycle. Sybex® has created a series of slide decks covering five types of meetings project managers are expected to run. In this, the first deck in the series, we'll explore tips and tactics related to the stakeholder meeting.

1. The 5 Types of
Meetings Project
Managers Need
to Master
Slide Deck Number Three: Stakeholder

2. Meetings provoke strong emotions for many professionals.
When used with skill, they are a way to share information, solve
problems, make decisions, and build relationships. Run poorly,
meetings burn up precious time and create frustration.
Given how many meetings project managers attend, there’s a
high ROI in thinking ahead to plan your meetings. To enhance
your meeting skills, learn how to navigate five critical types of
project meetings

3. In this, part three in our five-part series covering the various
types of meetings project managers need to master, we’ll
explore the stakeholder meetings.

4. Stakeholder
Meetings
Winning and sustaining the support
of your stakeholders is an important
contributor to your project’s
success. If you have a large number
of stakeholders to manage, focus
this meeting on your project’s most
influential stakeholders.

5. Identify Appropriate
Stakeholders for High
Touch Communication
For example, you may focus the meeting on senior managers
from each of the groups you need to engage. Other stakeholders
can be informed using other means such as email newsletters.

6. Present a Project Update
Start the meeting with a short overall project status update of
five to ten minutes. Keep “project management” jargon to a
minimum. It’s unreasonable for stakeholders to know earned
value management measures; put these data points into terms
that they can understand.

7. Seek and Listen to Feedback
Some stakeholders will make their opinions heard without
prompting, while some prefer to be quietly engaged. The
stakeholder meeting is your opportunity to engage with
stakeholders fully.

8. As this series continues, we’ll dive into the two other
types of meetings you’ll need to master to be an effective
project manager.
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