Your First Job: Ten Critical Things That Nobody Tells You
6. Meeting Manners
Nobody tells you how to handle meetings in your new job. When you are invited to a meeting you need to be on time and prepared. Start thinking about the meeting ahead of time and come with some ideas and fresh takes. Your preparedness and punctuality will be noticed and appreciated especially if it shortens the time of the meeting.
You also should never reschedule a meeting, that’s for suckers and people who are constantly late with everything they do. Excuse-driven people. Professionals don’t reschedule meetings. It’s even worse when someone reschedules a meeting that they called, ten minutes before it’s about to start. That is about the most unprofessional thing you can do in the business world and you are tipping everyone off that you are unorganized, unprepared can’t even manage a calendar.
If it’s your meeting then you need to start the meeting off with a short speech about why everyone is there and what you expect to get out of the meeting.
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