Meeting or dating? Which one did you prefer?

Alhamdulillah, thanks to Allah for giving me another chance to breathe for another new day.

Firstly, I would like to ask how many of you prefer dating than meeting. For sure we prefer dating since dating is more casual, relaxing, and most important thing is we are dating with someone that we love, like and we know that person (except for the blind date). Contrary with meeting whereby we are not seeing with someone that we love or like and more worst when we are meeting with people that we dislike most maybe our supervisor, boss, colleague etc. Meeting can be also with the people that are totally stranger to us. There are many reasons why people usually hate to attend any meeting in any place and any organization. One of the reason is the meeting is bored.

I had a chance to listen to a talk on how conducting an effective meeting which later can attract people to attend the meeting. The talk is conducted by Prof. Khir on 9th December 2010. The main reference used by Prof. Khir is Meetings - Their Law and Practice by Lawton, Ribgy ang Hall. The important thing for any organization before conducting the meeting is by make sure the meeting that will be conducting is valid and legal. The meeting is valid if the meeting was properly convened, constituted and held.

I’ve been exposed about the chairman of the meeting – appointment, qualifications, duties and removal of the chairman. The most important person in making the meeting is effective is the company secretary whereby he or she needs to prepare the notice about the meeting and then distribute it to everybody that should be in that meeting. The notice can be in e-mail, letter, print in newspaper etc as long as the information about the meeting reach to the respective person. I’ve given an example of the notice and Prof. Khir explained all the contents.

This topic on meeting gave me an overview on how the meeting will look like if I’m the one that should attend a meeting during my career in the future.