Internal meetings are where you shine
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Don’t poo-poo the importance of internal meetings.
How you present yourself, participate, collaborate, and manage your bored facial expressions in company meetings is important. Seriously!
Certainly, you don’t need to spend as much time prepping for internal meetings as you do for a buyer pitch, but what if you arrived at every internal meeting having done a little more than your sales buddies?
This isn’t about showing off…it’s about bringing your best self to everything you do.
Do
Before your next internal meeting, review the agenda and spend five minutes thinking about how you can provide value.
What insight can you share? How can you contribute positively? Confidently introduce your ideas and listen closely.
Your role in meetings is not to sit back; it’s to sit forward.
No eye-rolling, and no judgment when others talk. Stay patient and open.
Help the meeting go somewhere.
Oomph
Jim Carrey is back today to show what total honesty might look like in your internal meetings in this outrageous scene from Liar Liar.
Sure, speak up and participate. Just don’t bring this much of yourself to the meeting. There’s a line…Carrey blows right through it.