Some meetings sometimes are fine. All meetings all the time, are not.
Only action over written words first. Just the way I have written in this essay plenty about
I
and what am I here to do for you, I expect you to do the same.
We don’t do physical meetings unless:
1. There is a signed detailed letter of intent by you indicating clearly all of what you seek from us.
It
can simply be an email to us from your highest relevant authority.
2. A written acknowledgment that you have gone through our essays on Medium, linked to our services
listed
on our home page www.preseed.in.
3. You have made efforts through communication with us on Whatsapp chats, voice notes, video calls,
and
emails to minimize ambiguity towards clarity of our relationship.
4. You have then proceeded to talk to us over phone calls.
5. You may come to the place of our being. Our office is in New Delhi and Lucknow. However, we mostly
work
from remote locations like the mountains or sometimes, the beaches. You may check with us about our
current
whereabouts, and come to meet us there instead.
If most of the above is done, and now there is a genuine need of a physical meeting at your place of
being,
after having used web technology for meetings and video conferencing, you may proceed to transfer the
amount
equal to the cost of a to and fro air ticket for us and a reasonable stay in your city, no less than
Rs.
25,000 in total in our bank account, per person visiting you, from our side:
For bank account info reach Nishchal's executive assistant at
info@gencosys.in
cc:admin@preseed.in
Once done, you may intimate us on our email with all of the above and we will proceed to book our
tickets
to
you shortly.
There’s nothing more annoying than meeting just to meet. Business meetings aren’t effective when a
decision
needs to be made or for informational purposes. You can take care of that with a simple phone call or
a
company-wide email with a plea for no reply.
Unless it’s a brainstorming session, a meeting should be called only to support and convey a
previously
made
decision. A productive business meeting produces a committed plan of action. To stay on track, curb
any
irrelevant discussions, interruptions, and repeated points.
Begin the meeting before it starts.
“Prepare people ahead of time so you are all on the same page when you enter the room,” Wrike founder
Andrew
Filev advises. “Create notes and an agenda in advance and — here’s the tricky part — actually review
them
before the meeting starts.”
He also recommends putting key information someplace where participants can see it and discuss it in a
running thread well before the actual meeting. “That way, the meeting is focused on solving problems
and
not
just describing them,” he says. “The first 10 minutes of your meeting shouldn’t be a discussion of why
you’re meeting.”
This essay is just our attempt to ensure the meeting or series of meetings during our physical
presence
with
you are fruitful.
Note -: We detest the idea of meetings when there are more than 5 participants and ambiguous
reasons
for the presence of 5. We don’t however mind numerous silent observers.
If you have any doubt about our understandings of efficient meetings, google “meetings are
inefficient”
or
“meetings kill productivity” etc. Having said that, we don’t mean that this is always true. However,
it
is
mostly always true when the agenda of the meeting is not clear with a defined boundary unless the
agenda
itself is — boundless brainstorming.