73. 3 Moves to Improve Your Next Meeting

What Rules!?: A career podcast for women of color

Want to slay your next work meeting? Monique Lanaux, Chief Talent & Diversity Officer at Albertsons Companies, shares what you can do before, during and after a meeting to be seen and be heard—and get ahead. “Meetings are like a sport,” says Monique, who’s Caribbean American. “So, you have to start strong and finish strong.”

We also chat about the rubber balls vs glass balls we all juggle with our career. And Monique reveals her secret weapon to getting what she wants in life. Hint: You’ll need some sticky notes!

Theme: Know What You Want

Episode Highlights:

• Importance of the “meeting before the meeting”
• Having agency over your career
• Figuring out what you want and don’t want
• The power of writing things down
• Seeing life as juggling rubber balls vs glass balls
• Reverse engineering your career based on your intentions
• Saying out loud what you want so that people can help you
• Mentoring others – asking questions and letting them be themselves
• Meetings as a sporting event
• What you can do before, during and after a meeting to advance your career

Book Mentioned:

Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less by Tiffany Dufu

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