Please answer the following questions during the group meeting:
What have you achieved in the past two weeks?
What do you plan to do in the next two weeks?
Several other issues to remember when you attend the group meeting:
1) PARTICIPATION - The meetings are a participatory and a learning experience. Regardless of whether or not you are presenting, you are expected to take part in the meetings. This means contributing questions or offering solutions as well as learning. Many comments made at the meetings apply to all members of the subgroup / lab.
2) EMAIL TALK IN ADVANCE. Please e-mail me your talk the night before the meeting.
3) BE BRIEF. If you cannot summarize your project, progress and problems in a few minutes and instead go on with a long introduction, it tells me 2 important things very clearly:
First, that you don't know what you are talking about and second that you have not accomplished much.
Talks should be 10-15 minutes each with a 1-2 minute introduction. You should spend most of your time presenting NEW RESULTS and / or DISCUSSING PROBLEMS.
4) TAKE NOTES. I am always surprised to see people getting all this feedback and never taking any notes. Starting next meeting, each presenter will take their own notes during the meeting.
5) REVIEW YOUR NOTES. As part of the introduction for each meeting each member will review their notes from the LAST meeting and tell the group what they have done to address the issues. I want to see a slide that tells me what the problem was, what was the solution that you found and what you learnt. I want to see that you can focus on a set of tasks and address and solve these issues.