Attending meetings where you are silent for more than 30% of the time and which you did not organize yourself is a waste of time. It creates the impression that this is exactly what you’re being paid for, when in reality this is something for which you should retain your money, since it distracts without significant benefit. Ideally, a person should either organize the gathering of information themselves (then being silent is fine – you listen and comprehend) or pass on information to someone who organized its collection (then being silent is not fine). In all other instances, it’s almost always a waste of time. Online meetings are even stranger, but at least it’s easier to do some work simultaneously.
Unfortunately, not everyone shares my view.
Fortunately, I haven’t had internal face-to-face meetings in negotiation rooms for the past seven summers. Only when visiting a client.
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 