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Meetings... good use of office time

Meetings ‘great way’ to make key decisions

DUBAI, September 29, 2014

Meetings are an effective use of time and a great way to make key decisions, according to the majority of employees in the region, a report said.

About 80 per cent agree the meetings often have agendas distributed in advance and tend to start on scheduled time, added the ‘Meetings in the Middle East Workplace’ poll, recently conducted by Bayt.com, the region’s number one job site.

More than half of the respondents (52 per cent) claimed that their meetings will normally end on time, too. This is likely influenced by the fact that three quarters of respondents (76 per cent) say that people behave appropriately during meetings, allowing them to reach consensus on key decisions, the report said.

According to 73 per cent, meetings within their company remain focused and on the right track. Further to this, 45 per cent of respondents strongly agree that the right people are often present in the meetings they attend, with another 31 per cent ‘somewhat agreeing’ with the same, leading to an easier decision-making process.

In fact, 78 per cent of respondents claim that meetings are a great way to get the company to come to a good decision, and 72 per cent believe that meetings are always helpful and an effective use of time.

According to 79 per cent of respondents, key decisions are recorded and shared with meeting attendees at the end of the session, while another 79 per cent state that action items recorded during meetings have people assigned to them, who are then held responsible for carrying them out. This shows that Mena professionals record and follow-up with the execution of key decisions made during meetings, the report highlighted.

Six out of 10 (62 per cent) respondents believe that everyone at their company contributes during meetings, even remote employees, who, according to 81 per cent, actively participate in meetings.

“The results of this Bayt.com poll show that meetings are, indeed, a good use of company time to not only make key decisions, but to ensure engagement across all employees, too,” said Suhail Al-Masri, VP of Sales, Bayt.com.

“That is great. To make meetings even more effective, what we recommend is to always distribute a meeting agenda in advance, start the meeting on time, and finish the meeting on time. It is also important to invite only the right people, and to create an action list from discussion points and hold people responsible for it. This establishes meetings as a key contact point for all staff, and therefore an important part of regular corporate culture.

"Today corporate meetings at top organizations happen not only physically but also virtually.  With Bayt.com, the region’s top employers can meet with registered job seekers physically as well as via virtual job fairs and online chat and also engage via the proprietary Bayt.com Specialties platform and online corporate interview questionnaires for key job roles,” he added.

“Within Bayt.com itself cross-disciplinary and cross-geographic teams from the various bayt.com Mena offices meet physically and also virtually on a regular basis to brainstorm, discuss milestones and move key projects forward on track.  Open and honest communication is a key value at bayt.com and one that is heavily invested in at all layers of the organization,” Al-Masri concluded. – TradeArabia News Service




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