Squiggly Careers · 2026-09-03 · 5 min · 834 words

#590 How to increase your impact in every meeting

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Hi, I'm Helen Tuffer, and you are listening to one of our squiggly career shortcuts. These episodes are deliberately short, so that we can quickly give you some ideas that you can put into action for your career. And today I want to talk about meetings. Specifically, I want to talk about how you can increase your impact in every meeting. I was reading an article in the Times recently that was talking about pointless meetings because the amount of time we are spending meetings has gone up. Apparently,

A quarter of our time is spent in meetings. at work. And so you want to make sure that that time is well spent. And there are some things that we can do, like simple things that we can all do to increase our impact in the meetings. I think Often when you are in something that frequently

It can be easy to fall into some unhelpful habits or patterns of behavior where perhaps you are becoming a bit passive. you know, everyone else is talking, maybe you're multitasking in the meeting with your camera off. And that is a real missed opportunity for you to Build your reputation, show up with your strengths. So here is my recommendation for how you can increase your impact in every meeting. It is based on three things, which are hopefully easy to remember, and I'm going to talk about each one. So it is

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