Never Sit Next To An Important Person At A Meeting

Unless You’re Hung Over

Meetings are supposed to be an important time for minds to connect in an open and inviting format. They’re meant to help individuals all get one the same page or discuss differences in an inviting atmosphere. But meetings are anything but helpful and welcoming.

For the most part, meetings are either a dedicated time for the big dogs to show off or an anxiety inducing event that leaves you feeling exhausted and questioning your job safety.

Regardless, of your anxiety threshold or key-player status, it doesn’t look like meetings are going anywhere anytime soon.

So, in an effort to make the most of them, you prepare thoughtful comments and questions for the agenda. You can use meetings as a way to get noticed by some of the partners or managers of your firm- they likely won’t be able to use their phones and they’re trapped in a room with you so you have a captivate audience and a privileged moment to impress.

But, in order to take advantage of the moment, you have to understand a bit about human behavior. Luckily, you don’t have to learn any new information- you simply have to introspect on what you actually do in a meeting context.