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1/ Hostile meetings
I have apparently amassed some knowledge about how to approach meetings where nobody is likely to want to agree with you - lone women in the room checking in
So here are some tips off the top of my head.
I have apparently amassed some knowledge about how to approach meetings where nobody is likely to want to agree with you - lone women in the room checking in
So here are some tips off the top of my head.
2/ Have your ducks in a row
You need to be the best researched person in the room. You need to have the right answers to all (or at least the vast majority) of questions - and they need to be right.
White tall men can wing it - you can’t
You need to be the best researched person in the room. You need to have the right answers to all (or at least the vast majority) of questions - and they need to be right.
White tall men can wing it - you can’t
3/ Have a demo
If you say it can be done, folks will roll their eyes and say “sure, whatever” - you need to walk in with proof.
Running demo beats “that’s your opinion” every time.
If you say it can be done, folks will roll their eyes and say “sure, whatever” - you need to walk in with proof.
Running demo beats “that’s your opinion” every time.
4/ Have one (max two) goals
Never present a list of “demands” - they will give you the small stuff and say you’re ungrateful for not being happy with crumbs.
Put your primary goal front and center and keep going back to it.
Never present a list of “demands” - they will give you the small stuff and say you’re ungrateful for not being happy with crumbs.
Put your primary goal front and center and keep going back to it.
5/ Make categories that are hard to ignore
These will depend on who you talk to, make sure you tie what you’re asking for to their talking points. Whatever they care about, angle that way: “performance”, “scale”, “innovation”, “retention”, “security”, “privacy”
You’re selling
These will depend on who you talk to, make sure you tie what you’re asking for to their talking points. Whatever they care about, angle that way: “performance”, “scale”, “innovation”, “retention”, “security”, “privacy”
You’re selling
6/ Have slides
They might be having massive issues processing that someone like you is saying these things. They’ll miss half of what you’re saying because they “don’t appreciate your tone”.
Make sure they can read your words too
They might be having massive issues processing that someone like you is saying these things. They’ll miss half of what you’re saying because they “don’t appreciate your tone”.
Make sure they can read your words too
7/ Have a bibliography
Make sure you can point to a bunch of folks they’d actually listen to, that support your argument. Think research paper grade bibliography. Make sure they can convince themselves...
...it was their idea all along
Make sure you can point to a bunch of folks they’d actually listen to, that support your argument. Think research paper grade bibliography. Make sure they can convince themselves...
...it was their idea all along
8/ Forget getting credit
Nobody will ever give you credit. All you can hope for is impact, and if you’re very very lucky: backroom nods.
You’ll mostly be remembered as someone who made too much noise.
Nobody will ever give you credit. All you can hope for is impact, and if you’re very very lucky: backroom nods.
You’ll mostly be remembered as someone who made too much noise.
