Episode 278: Meet Like You Mean It - Virtual Project Meetings Made Easy (Free)




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Summary: Play Now: This episode is sponsored by The Agile PrepCast for The PMI-ACP Exam: If you're going to bother holding a meeting, then you should meet like you mean it. This statement comes from Wayne Turmel (http://www.greatwebmeetings.com/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayneturmel) who has been speakinga and consulting on communications and successful meetings in particular for a very long time. His latest book is called Meet Like You Mean It: A Leader's Guide To Painless And Productive Virtual Meetings. In the book and also in our interview he argues that if you're a project manager, you have to learn how to use today's online meeting tools to get great input, maximum participation, and engagement from your participating project team members. Virtual meetings should be an integral part of the way we work and manage our projects, and not an excuse to answer emails. Below are the first few pages of the transcript. The complete transcript is available to Premium subscribers only.  Podcast Introduction   Cornelius Fichtner: Hello and welcome to Episode # 278. This is the Project Management Podcast™ at www.pm-podcast.com and I'm Cornelius Fichtner. Before we get started, I have a quick favor to ask of you. Do you like The Project Management Podcast™? Do you like it well enough to take a couple of minutes and write an iTunes review for us? If you do, then please go to www.pm-podcast.com/review or just open up the iTunes Store and tell others what you think of The Project Management Podcast™. Thank you! And now back to today's topic. If you're going to be holding a meeting, then you should meet like you mean it. This statement comes from Wayne Turmel who has been speaking and consulting on communications and on successful meetings in particular for a very long time. His latest book is called "Meet Like You Mean It, A Leader's Guide to Painless and Productive Virtual Meetings". In the book and also in our interview, he argues that if you are a project manager, you have to learn how to use today's online meeting tools to get great input, maximum participation and engagement from your participating project team members. Virtual meetings should be an integral part of the way we work and how we manage our projects and not to be used as an excuse to answer emails in the background. Also, we are giving away two copies of his book. One copy as always is reserved for our Premium listeners. So if you are a premium subscriber, you are automatically entered into the drawing for one book. Everyone else gets a chance to win the other book. Please go to www.facebook.com/pmpodcast. Look for the giveaway announcement and participate. And now since everyone has joined our meeting on time today, let's get started. Enjoy the interview. Podcast Interview Female voice: The Project Management Podcast’s feature Interview: Today with Wayne Turmel, President of www.GreatWebMeetings.com. Cornelius Fichtner:Hello, Wayne and welcome back to The Project Management Podcast™! Wayne Turmel: Thanks, Cornelius. It's nice to be back or wherever it is that we are. Cornelius Fichtner: It's been a while. Wayne Turmel: It has! I think it was just before the sad demise of the Cranky Middle Manager show. Cornelius Fichtner: Yeah, you have to write more books then I can invite you more often. Wayne Turmel: Okay! Cornelius Fichtner: Alright! So we are going to talk about your new book today, parts of your new book. It is called "Meet Like You Mean It, A Leader's Guide to Painless and Productive Virtual Meetings" and we are going to open up that book and we are going to take a look at a couple of chapters inside of it, the technology chapter and the planning chapter. But first of, what's your personal favorite technology or tools when you are holding a virtual meeting these days and why do you choose that particular one? Wayne Turmel: Yeah, a lot of people are hung up on the technology. Truthfully, as a business and everything, we're platform agnostic. I don't really h