#127 The Kick Off meeting - The Implementation Series (3)

Episode site The kick off meeting is on the list of things that has to be taken care of when the EU project has been funded. Here in the third episode in The Implementation Series The Grant zooms in on this special event exercise and how to attack it. With me I have Senior Project Manager Nicole Schmidt from EUTEMA. She is the colleague of good old Georg Melzer-Venturi, who has been our guide in the first two programmes of this series. Nicole has planned and conducted many of kick off meetings and share with us the important steps in setting up the event and shares some nice tips, tricks, do’s and don’t’s based on her experience This episode contains an endless amount of guidance and heads-up’s for professionals who will ever have to plan and execute a kick off meeting Time codes: 00:01:33 Introduction 00:05:07 Fly in on kick off meetings 00:07:26 Main aim of kick off meeting 00:21:05 Team and group 00:35:20 The content programme 01:11:09 Organisation 01:23:26 The end of the meeting 01:31:58 Learnings, do's and don't's 01:38:09 The toughest challenge

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