The Snowball Effect: Communication Techniques to Make You Unstoppable

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When you want to only attend the meetings you need to

When people get invited to meetings, they often act as if their options are:

• Option 1 – go to the meeting.

And that’s it.

You’re invited, so you have to go, right?

Well, not exactly. It’s a meeting invitation, not a court summons. When you’re invited, you actually have three options:

• Option 1 – go to the meeting.
• Option 2 – not go to the meeting.
• Option 3 – go, but in a different way than the invite suggests.

Ignoring the third for now (we’ll come back to it later – it’s very useful), here are some questions to help decide between the first two – whether to attend or not:

1. Is the meeting covering something you can contribute to, feel passionate about and/or will be involved in implementing afterwards? ...