By Stacey Gawronski, Senior Editor/Writer of The Muse
Love ’em or hate ’em, for a lot of us, meetings are simply a reality. Maybe your organization has a weekly gathering for the department heads, or your boss insists on getting the whole team together each Thursday morning, or perhaps you sit down with the sales team twice a month to go over how you can help each other reach your overlapping goals. Whatever the reason for the meeting, they’re probably a part of your professional life, and how you handle yourself within them is important if you want to be respected and viewed as competent.
You can bet I’m not talking about the obvious no-nos either. I would hope you don’t doze off, leave your text message alert sounds on, or speak out of turn and condescendingly to other people. Those are amateur moves, but there are a bunch of other things you may be doing without even realizing the damage they’re causing your reputation. Read on so you can immediately shut them down:
1. You Don’t Pay Attention
Look, we all have to deal with the occasional wandering mind. It’s easy to get distracted, especially when a presentation is long or a speaker adopts a monotonous tone. But this tendency to totally lose track of the conversation around you can prove to be a big problem if you get called upon to offer feedback or if you suddenly decide to jump into the conversation after 10 minutes of zoning out.
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Stacey Gawronski is the Senior Editor/Writer of The Muse. She started writing short stories in the second grade and is immensely grateful to have the opportunity to write and edit professionally. Her work has appeared in YouBeauty, Refinery29, A Practical Wedding, Runner’s World online, and The Billfold among other publications. She enjoys running and eating in equal measure and lives with her fiancé and dog in Brooklyn. All three of them are avid New York Mets fans.
