Effective status meetings lead to successful projects. Like a pump at a water station, you--the consultant leading a project--are the one who has to keep everything moving. Follow these guidelines to ensure that your team's project flows smoothly. One of the most valuable tools you have as a project manager is a weekly project status meeting. I approach any significant project by holding weekly project updates. These status meetings help: The new project members develop as a team. Me, as the project manager, identify weaknesses early enough to make corrections.
Here's what we learned from the in-depth report on how women are doing in post-recession America. 1  1 in 3 American women, 42 million women, plus 28 million children, either live in poverty or are right on the brink of it. 2  Nearly two-thirds of minimum wage workers are women, and these workers often get zero paid sick days.
This is one reason that 40 percent of households with single mothers as the sole breadwinner were in poverty. This, of course, plays into why the problem of reliable and affordable child care is so urgent. Child care, by the way, is the eleventh worst paid job in America. But thatâs another story.