Getting noticed when WFH

I have been working at my company for 10 months and while I have adjusted to the chaotic pace of work I am worried nobody on my team knows me very well and will impact me over time. People that work with be directly recognize my work but the head of my department doesn't even know what my first name is lol. Should I be working to be more vocal during meeting or is this typical of analysts? If so how should I do that?

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Grain of salt here as I'm still new to managing people and I am the definition of middle management, but I don't like it when the juniors speak up just for the sake of talking and being heard in broader group meetings (read this as more than 3-4 people).  The points they bring up often come across as ill-considered, half-baked, and cause the meeting to run longer because some of the senior people are to nice to just ignore the question.  If you have real questions, ask them but consider asking that shit in private, lest you come off as a dumbass who talks to hear his/her own voice.

The ones I have my eye on as strong performers are strong communicators, but they do it via email follow-ups, updates on what they're working on, notes from some interesting call they listened in on, updates from folks they're talking to in the market, and generally delivering on shit when they say they're going to... all things that would separate them during non-WFH situations also. 

Through that, I see them as competent, personable/working towards being outward-facing, well-spoken/strong writers/strong thinkers, and more importantly, they don't waste time/derail calls by asking stupid questions.  Those are the kids I went to bat for when there was some bloodletting going on corporately back in May.

TLDR: be less vocal but more action-oriented.  People notice.

 

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