When companies become addicted to meetings, it indicates poor management of working hours and decreases employee productivity by at least 30%.
If companies estimated the losses caused by a dozen employees, mostly senior ones, meeting four times a week they would think twice before giving in to "Meetingitis", the cultural tendency to schedule a meeting for every issue. The Mexican consultancy Expandiendo has estimated annual losses for a large business with these habits to be $42,000.
From August 18th to 20th local and international buyers and sellers from different sectors will be taking part in business meetings in Chiriqui, Panama in order to generate new business alliances.
From a statement issued by the Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture of Panama:
TreviGroup will be visiting the country to meet with business leaders and government officials to evaluate business opportunities in the project of the Grand Canal and other construction areas.
TreviGroup construction company will meet with representatives of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise (COSEP); the Nicaraguan Chamber of Construction (CNC) and government officials in order to find out about and evaluate participating in the construction of the Grand Canal and other construction opportunities in the country.
On July 2 in Guatemala City regional entrepreneurs will be meeting with their Mexican counterparts to explore business opportunities.
From a statement issued by the Guatemalan Exporters Association (-AGEXPORT-):
In order to support SMEs starting to export or those who have already exported but want to diversify, AGEXPORT, through its Department of Promotion and Trade Information has created the Macro Rueda Central America and Mexico, with the aim of supporting improved competitiveness of SME's and linking them up to natural markets such as Central America and Mexico.
On March 18th the first business meetings in the International Fair in David will take place, to which companies from all productive sectors are invited to participate.
From a statement issued by the Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture of Chiriqui:
The International Fair in David and the Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture of Chiriqui are inviting participation in the first Business Roundtable, exclusively for exhibitors in the exhibition event, from Wednesday March 18, 2015 to be held in the Diplomatic Room Rafael Galan from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.
During the International Tourism Expo 2014 held in Panama, 3,276 business contacts were made between international wholesaler buyers and tourism businesses in the region.
From a statement by the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of Panama (CCIAP):
In the V Business Roundtable on Construction Materials and Finishes the value of contracts signed in Panama was $560,000 and this amount is expected to be doubled in the short term by deals yet to be finalised.
Organized by the export promotion agency ProexportColombia, the business conference recently held in Panama gathered together 62 Colombian exporters and 73 Central American companies, with 80% of the Panamanian buyers.
International bureaucrats are touring Central America offering up the ALADI as a means of doing business with South American countries, while the president of Argentina is preventing firms in her country from using ports in Uruguay.
Editorial
Our comments are the same as they were one year ago when Uruguayan diplomats toured the area in order to promote a free trade agreement with Mercosur; in terms of trade integration, South America is a bag of cats where what prevails is the will of two giants, Brazil and Argentina, with the aggravating circumstance that the current government of President Fernández de Kirchner, in the exact same manner as his deceased predecessor Néstor Kirchner, manages and controls Argentinian international trade by pandering to the needs of immediate populist policies, regardless of the agreements they have signed.
The ambassador of the Arab country announced that a delegation of businessmen will be visiting Nicaragua in the next few weeks and will meet with local businesses.
The Ambassador from the State of Kuwait based in Mexico, Sammeh Johar Hayat visited Nicaragua and announced the arrival of a trade mission of businessmen from his country in the coming weeks.
Companies in the sector will meet in Costa Rica from January 27th-29th to explore business opportunities.
The aim of the meeting is to attract business partnerships and identify business opportunities between companies in the sector in the region.
The program will offer all participants the opportunity to enroll, identify and apply for one to one meetings with other participants before the event begins. Meeting times, based on these decisions will be pre-arranged.
On 20 and 21 May, representatives from more than 20 countries in America will discuss in El Salvador the features of this tool and its influence on foreign trade.
From a press release issued by the Ministry of Economy in El Salvador:
El Salvador has been selected as the site to host the Third Meeting of Single Foreign Trade Windows, an event that is sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank and will be attended by representatives from 27 countries of Latin.
In preparation for his visit to the region, the U.S. president is meeting with business leaders who have a "significant presence" in Mexico and Central America.
According to the White House, the goal is to talk with employers, before his trip to the region next week, about "opportunities to expand U.S. trade with Mexico and Central America", with the goal of creating jobs and "reducing barriers to growth" in the region.
Proexport gathered together 46 Colombian exporters and 59 Central American buyers in a business conference in Panama.
From the press release published by Proexport of Colombia:
The IV Business Roundtable on Building Materials in Panama, organized by Proexport, finished with business expectations of $27.4 million for the Colombian business sector, informed the president of Proexport, Maria Claudia Lacouture.
Since 1993 the Nicaraguan German Chamber of Commerce and Industry has organized this biannual exhibition for products and services from Central American and European companies.
The Nicaraguan German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CICNA by its initials in Spanish), together with the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Nicaragua and the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Italo Nicaraguan, and in coordination with the European Union, will hold on 10 and 11 May 2013 the fifth edition of the EUROFERIA in the Hotel Crowne Plaza Convention Center, with the goal of expanding and diversifying trade relations within the framework of the Association Agreement (AA) between Central America and the European Union, which will allow access to a market of 500 million consumers.
Many companies engage in too many and too extensive meetings; these turn into unproductive encounters, whose costs outweighs their benefits.
Meetings convened without an agenda and clear objectives, beginning late, excessive duration, trivial issues being addressed, no minutes, and attendees lacking the necessary background information. These are some of the characteristics of meeting in companies who abuse or misuse them.
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