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5 Steps To Get Your Voice Heard At Meetings

Follow these five steps to get your voice heard during your next meeting. Master the pre-meeting Before the meeting, find something on agenda that you are passionate about and prepare a statement that expresses a strong opinion or idea that goes beyond agreeing with the status quo. “Women tend to speak in meetings when they agree with something that is already on the floor,” Adams says. “Work on putting a new idea out there first.” Arrive before the meeting starts and make small talk as colleagues come in, she says. This allows you to get comfortable with your voice in the room without any high stakes. “You are more apt to speak up during a meeting if you’ve already spoken to people,” she says. Use power language Get to the point and be clear about what you want. For instance, Adams says, there is a big difference between saying “I want this project to be successful so here’s what we should do” versus “Let’s take another look at this.”  Banish qualifying wor...