• Meeting Planning, Management, and Follow-Up
• Team Meetings Descriptions Sample
• Effective Meetings Checklist
• Meeting Minutes Formats
• Action Item List Formats
• Meeting Evaluation Guidelines


• Special Meeting Issues
• Review Meeting Planning Worksheet
• Brainstorming Meeting Techniques
• Preventing & Solving Meeting Disruptions


• Agendas for Different Types of Meetings
• Sample Team Meeting Agenda
• Project Kickoff Meeting Agenda and Guidelinesspan
• Multi-Project Kick-off Meeting Agenda
• Agenda for Preliminary Design Review Meeting
• Lessons Learned Meeting Agenda
• Project Closeout Meeting Agenda
• Agenda: Software Development Managers' Offsite Meeting

Project Kickoff Meeting Agenda and Guidelines

Summary: An example agenda for holding a kickoff meeting for a new project and detailed guidelines for preparing for and running this intense team session. Sure, you might prefer to "just get to work." But if a team member gets off track, or a cross-functional team member wasn't even aware of what was needed, the entire project can end up in the weeds.

This guideline will help you and your team:

• Align quickly behind the business objectives.
• Create team energy around the common goal and an initial understanding of how each team member fits.
• Ensure that any issues and misunderstandings regarding project objectives get aired right away.
• Ensure that the team "gets to work" and makes real progress together quickly.

What you get:

• Instructions on how to prepare and run a kickoff meeting.
• A sample kickoff meeting agenda