THE 10 TRICKS THAT WILL MAKE YOU APPEAR SMARTER IN MEETINGS
WILL THIS SCALE? PROBABLY!
Meetings: the place where mental energy goes to die. It’s not that you don’t want to pay attention, it’s just that pesky issue of your body completely shutting down the second a slide goes up.
Luckily, blogger Sarah Cooper has your back.
In what is essentially the 10 commandants of meetings, The Cooper Review lists foolproof tricks to make you appear smart in meetings—note, "appear."
As Cooper mentions, "Like everyone, appearing smart in meetings is my top priority. Sometimes this can be difficult if you start daydreaming about your next vacation, your next nap, or bacon. When this happens, it’s good to have some fallback tricks to fall back on."
And fall back we will. Scroll through Cooper’s tricks above or see the entire infographic below, and try them out during your next meeting.
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- 1/2 I strongly disagree with this list, I suspect it is meant to be humorous. However, it is so unamusing that I have my doubts.#1: Drawing an inaccurate Venn diagram (or presenting any inaccurate information) makes you look stupid if anyone notices your mistake, and more stupid if they point it out.#2: Translating 25% into 1/4 makes you look like that stupid kid in class whose parents push him too hard to get better grades. It's redundant and annoying. Meetings should be focused on productivity and efficiency.#3: Taking back a step can be useful sometimes, but you would be holding everybody back. Let's say someone asks you "okay, what problem do you think we're really trying to solve here?" Are you prepared to answer? You have to be smart to "appear" smart.#4: Using a notepad or a piece of technology is completely irrelevant. As long as you are showing attention, you're good.#5: Really?
- Humour alert! This is satire - don't take it so seriously :)
- 2/2#6: You should know whether or not this would "scale", otherwise, you should not be in the meeting.#7: You are distracting everybody with your pacing. Unless you are running the meeting, do not do that.#8: If you're not sure what those numbers mean, you should have asked as soon as the presenter brought them up. Going back a slide means you're holding everybody back.#9: Yes, because your phone call is much more than the meeting. Stay out for good.#10: This is where I think this is intended as humor.Anyway, being smart makes you appear smart. End of story.
- You dont get it :)
- I always do #8! Haha. Thanks for sharing this.
- Be quiet and "Listen"...I'm always surprised when I receive the most attention at meetings when I'm the most attentive. Thanks for the post!http://ah2andbeyond.com/whitepapers/
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