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Conference - The Conference Call is Nothing But a Waste of Time! Sometimes I wish I could go back to being a stressless stamp licker at my office, because my well earned promotion into junior management has me involved in some very wearing tasks, 1 of them being the introduction pertaining to the conference call. Now, I might fully see the benefits of well organized conference calls, but everyone seems to think that what they have to say is more important than the next man (or woman), including as a consequence, these calls often end up sounding like barroom banter as all voices talks over 1 another. I actually lost the plot 1 Monday morning including told a dominant sales executive at our head office that god gave us 2 ears including only 1 mouth, so perhaps it was more important to listen than to speak. Well, you might just imaging how that went down. We’ve since had training in conference calling including conference etiquette so we might have more productive including orderly meetings via the system. To be fair, the dreaded conference calls are nowhere near as bad as they were to begin with, but they still obtain a little overheated from time to time. I think the hardest job has to be that pertaining to the secretary, who diligently attempts to take the minutes of these meetings. Sometimes her face resembles a British bulldog chewing a feisty wasp as her pulsating ears endeavor to decipher the executive squabble. Along with the success of our company comes the latest technology (not always for the better, I hasten to add!) including at last weeks conference meeting the company director announced we are to invest in a video conferencing system. Now the should be actually interesting. Let the dog see the rabbit so to speak. I’m only guessing here, but I will imagine that at the time you might actually see the folks in conference, their behavior could improve drastically. In my honest opinion, I think conference calls are a big waste of time. A 1 on 1 meeting I might understand, including even a small group of 3 or 4 people will probably work, but at the time there’s 8 or 12 individuals spread around the country, as is the case with us, it’s nothing less than chaos. In fact, we probably waste more time than we save. Usually, after these meetings, most of us return to our desks including spend the rest pertaining to the morning sending emails back including forth as we try to make sense pertaining to the dialogue we’ve just had. Oh, the wonders of technology!
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