More about meetings and how to behave during them?

More about meetings and how to behave during them?

During the meeting, everybody should allow speaking. And if somebody sits without saying the single word, we might ask, why that person ever asked to participate that meeting? Those people must have something else to do than sitting and listen to other participants and their speeches.

If we are asking help or advise, we can always ask them. But if we don't listen or read those advises, we are just wasting time. And the thing is that if some meeting is planned to take an hour, that means that the hour is reserved for a meeting. When we want to show interest and look active in those meetings, we can put our laptops and other devices away and use pen and paper to make notes.

That thing might seem like some "return to school stuff", but the thing is that active member, who makes notes by using some other things than mobile computer seems very interesting when we are starting to talk about promotions. In that case, the person would not use Facebook or play some games during the meeting. How the chairman or leader of the meeting could know what other people do when they are keeping their laptops open?

Are they playing some games, keeping notes, or filling their Facebook. The observation of other people during the meeting is important. If somebody is starting to sleep, we might surprise that person by asking some questions about the opinions of that kind of thing, which is involving in the meetings.

Before the meeting, we must make sure, that everything is fine and the battery of the laptop is loaded. But that kind of device should be opened only if the chairman permits that or orders to give some presentations or otherways says, that the laptops are needed in the meeting and the same things are considered tablets or mobile telephones.

The golden rule in the meetings is that nobody should punch right away when some opinions are asked. When we are asking about opinions other people have the right to expect that we will listen to those opinions, and that's why we should make very good documentation for the superiorities about meetings. The thing is that when some person doesn't do anything that kind of thing can be covered by sitting quietly or dominating others. And in that case, the person speaks all the time, but things are far away from the things, what we or team should handle in those meetings.

If we are thinking that somebody has problems with workmates that thing causes very bad problems in the atmosphere of a workgroup. But the truth is that in the real world people just cannot always choose workmates, who are pleasing the, or somehow feel perfect.

The world is quite small, and sometimes we must face the truth, that we are meeting people, who found in our bed after the parties, or our ex-spouses new husband or wife is sitting in the same table as we. And sometimes there is a bigger leader, what we are, who says that the things, what you have done in the free time should stay outside the meetings, or both of those persons are free to leave.

This is the rule in real life, we have not always get workmates, who are pleasing us, and there might be the same kind of things in other people's minds. That means that some people might believe that we have some features, which are not pleasing others. And the conclusion is that sometimes other people don't like us, even we would like to think about other ways.

And here is one problem with team-leading. If we are the bosses, other people would not always or this thing happens very often, that they don't like something, what we are saying or something, what we are doing. But at the same time, we must ask do we tell our superiorities, that we don't like their slips or they way to speak. That thing normally left from talking, what we are using in meetings and private discussions with bosses. But why we dare to tell those things to henchmen? That's a really good question.

When we are asking about the opinion, we should also listen to those arguments, and even play the interesting. If we are looking at the telephone or computer screen at the same time, when another person is speaking, we might ask ourselves, why we wanted to waste the time of both of us? Why we don't just tell, what to do, and that thing would be easier for both of us?

If we ask reports, what are not even wanted to read, we are wasting time. Those people can always make some Excel-diagrams while they are doing reports, which is not even meant for anything else than put in the garbage can. When we are making a meeting, we must remember that also other people are getting salaries from that time. And that means that we don't have to spend an hour if we just are wanted to tell people, what are their next missions.

Diversity in working life part III (When a different kind of person has superior to us)

Diversity in working life part III (When a different kind of person has superior to us)

One example of the cases, where the majority is not right is when the boss of the company has a different opinion than henchmen because the boss is superior or otherways saying, in a different and this case higher position than others. This is the thing in the position of the boss or leaders and directors. They are giving rules, and other people must follow those orders. If that thing doesn't please, the henchman can start to ask for a new job.

When we are talking about the diversity of working life, we always forget one golden thing in that thing. What if that different person is our superior? What would we do in this case? So even if we would sometimes in our younghood selected workplace, where we can be with similar people, what we are, we might face the situation that the company has been sold and the new owner would come from the Saudi-Arabia.

In that case, we can, of course, change our working place, and say the reason for that is we want to be with similar people, what we are. In that case, we might have a  big problem with the attitudes, if the policy in the company has been that the benefit of the majority has always been first. In that case, the problem is that we cannot kick owners out of the company, and if they would put some controller for us, we cannot kick that person out of the office.

The thing is that in some cases the new owners would use the observer, who would meet new workers and explore ways, what might cause adjusting for the behaves and tradition in some companies. The thing is that in those cases the henchmen must just follow the rules, what the new bosses would give, or they can find a new job.

But when we are facing minorities or different kinds of people in working life, we must ask, why those people give challenges? If somebody talks a little bit slower than others, there might be the reason, that person is the translator, whose home language is a little bit different than other people's language.

And that case would cause things, that we must speak a little bit slower or listen a little bit longer when that person will find the correct words. But those cases would not be problems. This is one version of diversity. So if we think that we can just follow the will of the majority, we must realize, that business life is not democracy.

Owners of companies are giving rules, how people should act in the workplace. And in modern life, we must realize that ownership of the company can change all the time. If the owners would be foreigners or the foreign company has brought our workplace, we can do only one thing. Follow the rules and start to flex, or we can start to make new job applications. The bosses would give orders and others must follow those rules. This is the way in modern working life.

The social media and working life

The social media and working life

There are solutions, which allows workers to communicate together by using the bases what have based on the same technology with Facebook and another kind of solutions. Those solutions allow the workers to mark the working hours and communicate together by using text messages, and of course, the leaders of the team might supervise those messages. That might feel a very good thing, and the leader can, of course, communicate with henchmen more effectively than ever before, and send the photographs from the places, where those workers have been worked.

That thing would be a very effective tool in the hands of the customer because that makes possible to tell the cleaning company, that the work is done wrong way. This kind of software would have one problematic level, and it is, that this kind of software transforms very easily to the forum, where is shared only the negative feedback because the thing in the working life is that the well-done job is self-evidence, and there is no need to comment the job, what is done correctly.

This kind of attitude is very common in working life. The well-done work would not be commented, but if there are mistakes, the worker will hear it right away. The thing, what sometimes addicts the company to use this kind of social media applications is that the team leader must not even meet the worker if that person gives negative feedback. That kind of things would be a little bit embarrassing if that would be uncovered in somewhere else, and that's why the workers should not spend even their part-time in some kind of social media like Facebook.

The thing is that freedom of speech and opinion are a very nice thing if everybody has the same opinions, what I have. Otherwise, that kind of media applications should closed, because nobody wants to hear that some henchman would not like the superiors way to share the jobs if the sharer would be self the target of the critics.

That's why the best way would be that the open social media applications would be prohibited in the working life, because nobody wants to hear that person self is a selfish tyrant, and this is the reason why everybody feel better, if the social media would be limited to be the tool of the closed groups, where nobody else will see the messages. And that would make possible to make the moderations, that somebody would not be allowed to comment things or show them to somebody else if there is some "criticism" in the social media.