Boring meetings – Photo credit: http://people-equation.com

We all know it, you haven’t been minted as a professional unless you’ve attended full-fledged, around-the-big-conference-room, let’s-all-have-an-opinion meetings. Weekly meetings, departmental meetings, bi-weekly meetings, impromptu meetings, emergency meetings, company meetings, you name it, everything has a meeting named after it, and your oh-so-busy presence is required at all of them. And this despite the fact we all realize meetings waste precious time (that can actually be spent doing REAL work), and that avoiding them is literally the stuff of miracles. Especially when it’s been proven 50% of all meetings are unproductive, and 25% is spent discussing irrelevant issues (like the next Hunger Games episode, or how Fifty shades of Grey is slaying the box office…)

Well, since you are doomed to be bored to death in one of these meetings, here’s how to survive them, and even fake interest: