How Project Managers Lead Effective Meetings That Drive Results

Meetings are essential coordination, but many produce no outcome because of three fixable failures: weak design, weak facilitation, and weak follow-up. This course treats meetings as a craft, showing how to design each one around a specific outcome, facilitate the group to a clear decision, and follow up so decisions turn into action.

Who this course is for

• Project managers who spend much of their week in meetings that end without decisions
• PMs who need to engage reluctant senior stakeholders or technical team members
• Anyone looking to cut recurring meetings and replace information sharing with async writeups

What you'll be able to do

• Write a one-sentence purpose statement and build a time-boxed agenda with pre-reads and an audited invite list
• Open by restating the objective and ground rules, manage airtime with round-robins, and capture tangents in a parking lot
• Keep time with a separate timekeeper and reserve the last five minutes to confirm decisions, owners, and due dates
• Apply the hour rule for summaries and track action items centrally
• Rescue a meeting that is going nowhere, keep status meetings short, and audit your total meeting load

Complete the video and knowledge check to earn up to 1.5 PDUs, credited from your recorded learning time.