Make the Most of Your Marketing Department’s Meetings

Meetings are a fact of life in business, as BlueJeans.com illustrates in their infographic on the State of the Modern Meeting. If you are taking on a new role, whether within the same company or starting a completely new job, learning the meeting style of your new marketing department is one of the keys to hitting the ground running.

BlueJeans.com says that 35 percent of meetings include at least one conference room system, which is why we recommend that anyone new on the job make it a priority in their first 15 days to learn where their company’s conference rooms are located and how to use any systems needed to facilitate meetings with off-site participants.

And while the average meeting length, according to their infographic, is 36 minutes, this can vary greatly from one corporate culture to another. (Click to Tweet)

Finding a mentor in your company who can clue you in on expectations is another new job priority. After all, if your colleagues are used to wrapping things up in 20 minutes, you don’t want to keep them in an hour-long in-depth session without prior warning and a really good reason.

Mastering your company’s specific meeting MO is just one of the ways you can start your new marketing job on the right foot. Find more tips for making a major impact in your first 100 days in our downloadable ebook.