Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings 2021 Day-to-Day Calendar Calendar – Day to Day Calendar, July 14, 2020

News flash! It appears that Year 2020 will never end.Solution! Order this 2021 Day-to-Day Calendar immediately—and start living in the future. (You’re welcome!)My 2021 joke-a-day calendar just arrived—and I can’t stop laughing! To be clear— I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS 2021 CALENDAR—but I did buy it, and I can’t stop laughing. I’ve already read every punchline from January 1 to December 31—and even with my mask and my muffled laughter, I already feel better saying goodbye to 2020.I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS 2021 CALENDAR. “Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings (2021 Day-to-Day Calendar)” makes a mockery of the Meetings Bucket. This daily calendar is irreverent. It abuses agendas, disparages decision-making, and its cheeky arrogance is contemptuous. I couldn’t stop laughing. Here’s why:MEANINGLESS METAPHORS:• January 4: Use sports metaphors. “If something is great, say it’s a home run. Tell the team to skate to where the puck is going to be and keep the ball rolling until you throw in the towel.”• January 12: Ask, “Will this scale?” no matter what it is. “No one even really knows what this means, but it’s a good catchall question that drives everyone nuts and definitely makes you look smart.”• January 18: Ask if this is a crawl, a walk, or a run. “No matter what idea is being discussed, it’s always good to ask if this is a crawl, a walk, or a run. For bonus points, ask when the team will be able to fly.”WHITEBOARD WIZARDRY:• January 28: Focus on the vision. “Go to the whiteboard and write the word ‘vision’ with a circle around it. Remind everyone that everything we do must revolve around vision.” (Ouch! See my recent book review on vision!)• April 23: Ask everyone to think outside the box. “Go up to the whiteboard and draw a box. Say, ‘We don’t want to think inside the box.’ Now draw an arrow pointing outside the box. Ask, ‘How can we think outside the box?’”• May 14: Talk about the back end and the front end. “Write ‘back end’ and ‘front end’ with an arrow connecting them on the whiteboard. Say ‘We just need to hook up the back end to the front end.’ You’ll seem very technical.”• December 10: Say we need to focus on customers. “Go to the whiteboard and draw a few stick figures. Circle one of them and say, ‘This is Lucy. Lucy’s a Mom. What does Lucy want? Who cares. What do we want? That’s a trick. What does Lucy want?’”POWERPOINTS & PRESENTATIONS:• January 26: Ask the presenter to go back a slide. “This will immediately make you look like you’re paying closer attention than anyone else. Then, after staring at the slide silently for several seconds, say ‘Ok, we can move on.’”• October 2/3: How to become a keynote speaker. “Step 1: Put ‘Keynote Speaker’ in your bio. Step 2: You’re done.” (Note: The two-day weekend pages are hilarious!)• September 25/26: Meeting Achievement Sticker. “Did you go to a meeting this month where you successfully projected your screen on the third try? Congrats! You get a sticker!” (The sticker reads, “Successfully projected my screen on 3rd try.”)TRITE TIPS:• January 5: Suggest a walking meeting. “Say you enjoy walking meetings because they clear your mind, just like they did for Steve Jobs. Now people will think you’re as smart as Steve Jobs.”• January 11: Give your meeting a fun name. “When scheduling your meeting, call it something like a touchbase, powwow, huddle, sync session, roundup, tagup, or thought shower. This will throw people off the scent that this is going to be an excruciating meeting.”• July 1: When taking meetings in Canada, apologize a lot. “Normally, apologizing is a sign of weakness, but saying you’re sorry in Canada is just how they do things. Start every sentence with ‘Sorry,’ and you’ll gain their trust in no time.”REMINDER: I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS 2021 CALENDAR. And one caveat—before you buy it for co-workers and friends, there may be a few days, with a few inappropriate words, you’ll want to delete from the calendar. (Hey! Why is March 4 missing?)

I bought a this for a Christmas party for work, we had a Chinese auction. We needed something to be unisex and I wanted it to be funny. This was the perfect item, everyone got a kick out of this calendar. Thank you!

Bought this for my husband who works in CPG and spends most of his days in meetings. I can’t tell you how many days he came out of his home office to share with me that days “tip” while laughing. His job is high level and high stress and this calendar honestly brought some much needed levity to his work day. Wish there was a second one!

A friend of mine showed this calendar to me back in January and I immediately purchased my own. I've also given it to three other friends who have loved it as well. She brings out the humor in the most mundane situations and nails the thought process that motivates so many behaviors.

Invest in anything Sarah Cooper decides to sell you. Brilliant and on point. This gift works well in an office and works just as well for those of us anchored to Zoom calls from home. This is also a perfect gift for MBA students suffering through "seemingly" insightful questions from the front rows in lecture halls. Wonderful gift to own and to give. We all need to laugh more.

This is the best calendar I have ever owned. My coworkers look forward to pulling off the page every morning. The cartoons in the corner are the best part. So funny!!

Brought this calendar to my desk as soon as it arrived, we are now back to working from home. Worse case scenario, when I do return to the office I will be able to read more than one day of the calendar, an impulse I usually have to subdue.Sarah Cooper is hilarious, and if the rest of the Calendar is like January 1 2021 I am happy with my purchase!

Got this calendar as a gift for my friend and he absolutely loves it. He occasionally sends pics of them and they're hilarious, honestly a great buy and plan on getting myself one from now on

This calendar is funny. Overall, I like it. What I don't like is the sexist language (misandry); for example, "manlistening". The term "womanlistening" wouldn't be tolerated by most women, so why is "manlistening" okay? No more double standards.

My brother loved the 2022 calendar that I gave him for Christmas, so I went and reordered another one as a gift to my friend. However, the reorder was the 2021 version. The boxes look identical so I only realized when my friend mentioned it. Very disappointing.

Some of these pages are deadly accurate - I take some risks in sending them to guilty types. Get one, you will love it.

Hilarious calendar! Incredibly relatable and fun to read everyday.

Un éphéméride qui exprime avec humour les manies et expressions du monde du travail (en anglais). Excellent !