The Pandemia of Coronavirus and the global quarantine that followed it forced millions of people around the world to switch completely to remote work. In particular, this means that all meetings and working discussions are held over long months online. Many are already accustomed to such a format of work, but in fact, full -time meetings in offline have a number of advantages. We remember them in our new article.
Meetings face to face more informative
Communication in a chat or email is usually compressed and limited to discussing key facts and thereby, otherwise no one will understand anything. In the event of a conversation, you can also discuss important details to face, to which the case will never come to correspondence. This increases the effectiveness of communication.
In addition, such communication gives more details than conversations by phone or online conference. In a personal meeting, you can always notice important factors that slip away with digital communication.
Personal communication allows you to better understand the interlocutor
Video conferences and even more so text messages do not fully consider the emotional state and the mood of the interlocutor. Body language, facial expression and other factors are very important for establishing contact.
In addition, making a pleasant impression or remembering just with a message or call on Zoom is more difficult than when talking tet-a-tete. And the importance of the first impression is difficult to overestimate in any business.
Personal meetings can be held on the territory of the interlocutor
In many cases, a meeting on the territory of the interlocutor – for example, in the office of his company – gives an additional context and knowledge that can be used in the future in work. The design of the space, the way people communicate in it, allow you to understand a lot about the company and its employees. This is very useful in negotiations.
