3 Ideas to Bring Into Every Meeting
How to always come with something meaningful to say
Most workers intuitively get the concept of professional idea management (or PIM, as no one refers to it). We know not to unleash all of our brilliance in one supreme moment during a meeting.
“Instead of parallel-pathing it, let’s perpendicular-path it! And add additional customer support. And Jayden should manage all of it… and be given a title change and modest increase in salary!”
And we know not to keep everything to ourselves.
“Jayden, I’ll let you take this one.”
And we know timing is important: We try to wait for the right moment to make an assertion.
“Sorry to interrupt you, J, but I was thinking the exact same thing.”
We read the Zoom and we proceed, guided by some combination of ambition, intuition, and collegiality. And that’s why even boring meetings are always at least a little bit stressful. Meetings allow people to advocate for themselves and others and to propose new approaches that could fundamentally change the work they do (and the work of others). There’s always the potential for job-changing discussion. Engaging in meetings — even structured ones — feels pre-chaotic.
