Team meetings on my call blocks.

Question

Remote BDR here based on the west coast. I block off two hours for my cold calling time between 7-9 am since I work east coast hours, but the company is global(EMEA) and schedules meetings constantly at this time, like 3 days a week. I've told my manager I need those hours, but he says I need to be a part of them to be on them for the sake of building "culture" in the workplace.

I'm two months into my new role and my second BDR role and I'm hitting quota, but I'm missing prime calling hours cuz of this teambuilding/zoom 20 questions shit and I don't know how to convey to my team that I need those hours to do my job? How would you go about conveying this is a non-douchey manner?

Accepted Answer

I would hit them up with data. Hey, I’ve made this amount of calls during these hours and have these appointments as a results which are x% of my total quota.

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Straight to the point, captain. Tell them you have a blocked agenda and data will back you up

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Tell them they are actual meeting with clients that you cannot miss.

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Sorry to be the contrarian, but if you’ve already told your manager this , they aren’t going to move it or adjust. You’re almost certainly stuck. You might be able to drop or join late 1/2 per week but I would guess that’s it.

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Just tell them why the timing is off. They need to schedule that kind of stuff in less productive hours.

Gyro25

Team meetings on my call blocks.

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Gyro25

Team meetings on my call blocks.

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