Go back to watching “The Hills”
In the business world, no matter your career level, we all have way too many meetings and presentations to attend. In a personal level (and I bet I’m not the only one) this is time I would prefer to spend working on my other thousands of things on my plate, but this is usually not an option. There is only one thing that can make a boring presentation worse and that is having Heidi and Spencer (from MTV THE HILLS) as your speaker.
“Hello, like I am Megan, and like I want to show you like, our new product….LIKE, LIKE, LIKE, mmmm…” For heaven sake woman, you are not a cheerleader anymore!
Many girls have fought really hard to gain respect in the business world, and it’s sad that we still encounter others behaving like this is a beauty pageant. I say, if you can’t hold a conversation without adding the world LIKE as a verb, adverb, adjective, noun, or anything other than a comparison, you should not be allowed to talk in public.
August 6th, 2010 at 9:33 AM
A common recent trend in some of the forward-looking companies is offering employees the “right to decline” meeting requests.
The idea being that an employee should be mature, informed and responsible enough to be able to choose where he/she will be offering or receiving value and here he/she will accomplish neither (otherwise, he/she should be terminated).
By the same token it imposes on meeting organizers the added responsibility of including meeting agendas, making them short, and clearly articulating what value is needed or provided from/to participants.