You scheduled a kick$-$off meeting in order to announce the start of your project, present the plan and develop consensus on it$.$ Another topic will be an explanation of each team member$$s role. In addition, you planned some time for discussions. You published the agenda of the kick$-$off meeting some weeks ago to all invited attendees. Now, short term before the event, you receive various cancellations by team members, who say that they cannot join the meeting. But they will be with you when the project work will start.

Select one:

a$.$

If you force team members$$ presence, they would anyway be distracted by their current problems

b$.$

You should insist on the presence of the team members to the appointed date

c$.$

The kick$-$off meeting is secondary$,$ you are happy if the team members will do their jobs.

d$.$

It is probably a good idea to reschedule the meeting to a day, when all team members can attend