Meetings Build Good Working Relationship
A meeting is a gathering of individuals with diverse opinions which are ready to be shared and discussed. Meeting participants may or may not have similar interests and personalities. But individuals are bonded together in a meeting.
Notice that when you attend meetings in your office regularly, you somehow create a cordial affiliation with your colleagues and even strengthen the bond in the long run. This is because you see each other often during meetings despite the busy and hectic schedules at work that hinder employees to bond with each other during office hours.
Comparing face-to-face meetings with phone calls and emailing, the latter forms of communicating do not really contribute much in strengthening the bond among colleagues. During meetings, individuals can demonstrate manifestations of connection such as a handshake and facial expressions. In meeting discussions, you see other people smile at you or participants laugh with each other. These can be good initial steps to establish rapport with each other.
Since meetings allow a sharing of ideas and experiences, individuals eventually realize that they will find some things common to all of them. This paves way for a more comfortable atmosphere within the group which, in turn, makes it easier for the attendees to freely express themselves without worries of getting criticized and unheard. And when people are comfortable with each, it also becomes easy to crack humor. A good humor during meetings can work as an “ice breaker” from a serious atmosphere and it also keeps the cordial relationship among participants.