Manners at the Meeting

In a business meeting, adherence of manners is fundamentally required, helps to build respect among meeting participants and healthy corporate environment. In a company, individual growth is valued and counted as per the performance, skills, dedication and etiquette's. To achieve success, one must also learn to maintain the decorum of the work place. Besides good performance individual gets recognize by his behavior too, indirectly upshot the individual career growth.

Following basic essential guidance and information of meeting etiquette's  will help individual to makes good impression in meeting.

·         Should know the meeting agenda and its importance.

·         Prepare in advance.

·         Dress appropriately.

·         Turn off the mobile phones or put it in silent mode.

·         Notepad and pen is must.

·         Do not enter the meeting room in-between the meeting. It disturbs others.

·         Avoid taking cups of coffee or tea to meeting rooms unless and until allowed.

·         Be polite, positive and patient through out the meeting.

·         Never argue for any particular seat.

·         In case of a presentation, prefer to make it crisp and clear.

·         Make proper use of whiteboards, projectors, graphs, pointers, slides.

·         Never interrupt others while speaking, wait for turn.

·         Avoid chewing gum during the meeting.

·         Be a good listener.

·         Speak politely and in moderate tone.

·         Don’t thrust your opinion on others.

·         Have the habit of taking notes of what is being discussed.

·         Avoid whisper conversation with colleagues during the meeting.

·         Avoid giggling during the meeting

·         Always speak to the key points.

·         Never distract the meetings by fiddling with pen, notepad, cell phone, key, etc.

·         Do not yawn during the meeting.

·         Prefer to have question answer round at the end of presentation.

·         Long meetings should have a break of every two hours.

·         Breaks should be 20 minutes long, and meal breaks should be 30 minutes long.

Aforesaid points make individual to have good impression in business meetings which indeed results in the success at the workplace. Thus for career growth, basic meeting etiquette is always being considered important.