ManCom Meeting at Beach house: French Beach, Karachi

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I have been working in Logistics Customer Service Department for six years. Last year, I got the opportunity as CS manager and I grabbed it without a second thought. It was a difficult decision as all of my friends and well-wishers were against this decision to join a growing company and resigning from a well-known and branded company. Well, I want to explore and give myself a little more space to think and apply new things for a new company from what I have learnt in my tenure.

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I quickly adjusted myself in new environment and started enjoying working in there. New colleagues were helpful and nice. Things are still under process and SOPs are to be formed and implemented. Everyone is trying best to improve and make company to progress on the right side.

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My CEO is a very nice and polite young man who never use bossy attitude with the employees and always welcome new ideas and strategies for the improvement. Most of the departmental heads were new so, in Feb of this year, he arranged a ManCom meeting at his beach house.

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It was the first time I heard of that word “ManCom” so, I Googled it through which I come to know that it is Management Committee meeting which discuss and point out the loop holes and for their solutions. We were informed to be punctual on first Friday of Feb and all the managers along with CEO will drive together to the beach house. Agenda was provided to each of us for the discussion and presentations were prepared with the pointers, solutions and suggestions. I did my part and prepared myself for the meeting.

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We moved on Friday morning in three cars. I was with IT head, discussing all about it on our way to beach house. In took us an hour or so to reach there. It was an excellent place to hang out. Everyone got busy in taking selfies and pictures. Me too just did few clicks then relaxed on the chair. It was a nice plan to go far away from work environment to a fresh one where we can think and speak in a better way. The idea was to spend some time engaging and knowing each other having a healthy discussion. The views and amazing atmosphere was really making me feel awesome and freshness was all over the place.

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We started with one on one meeting with the CEO, just a recap of what is required in the whole discussion. There were 10 managers so it took him two hours to meet each of us individually. Then around 1:30, we all went to nearby mosque for Friday prayers. The actual ManCom starts around 2:30. HR took a lot of time as there were many serious questions from all the departments and she was answering them one by one. Few people were dragging the topics so in the end Boss intercepted the lengthy talks and asked to be very specific. I was sure that this is going to a big and very lengthy meeting. My number didn’t came but lunch arrived at 16:00 so we had a lunch break. It was organized by the secretary of CEO. Meal was fantastic with variety of dishes.

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All above pictures are captured by me through my cell phone ITEL A25.

After a lunch break, we continued the meeting. Honestly, we didn’t noticed when it turned dark outside. I was the second last to start my presentation. Luckily, no one had anything to question me except the CEO himself who asked me few things about my progress and conclusions. Everything was already mentioned in my presentation so I took only half an hour to share my thoughts and suggestions. I think by that time, most of them were already tired and want to end this ASAP. At around 21:00, we ended up the discussions and returned.

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Overall, it was a nice experience of ManCom, enjoying sea view in a meeting. Click here to check company's post on FB. In my opinion, such meetings help to clear confusions between managers which are useless and gives a new vision to the company to make new goals and achieve them within defined timelines. We all were provided with some reports and points to follow for next six months then to have another ManCom. I am already working on it and trying my best to improve things for the betterment of the company. Cheers!!!



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Sometimes you need to take a leap of faith and looks like this has paid off so far. Your CEO seems like a guy who genuinely cares about his company and staff and hopefully you will grow with the company's success!

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@livinguktaiwan Yes, that is the mission and going forward, hopefully we will expand but will make sure to maintain service level.

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I just checked out your company on LinkedIn and with 25 employees and 2300 followers I think its not bad to learn what it takes to go onto the next phase of growth in the company. With a growing company you will do a lot more however you get to see a wider range of how a company operates. I think you made the right choice!

Your CEO hosting a meetup at the beach side and wanting to engage with you guys is also a very good sign. He cares for his people... that really goes a long way and dont take it for granted either~ There are many who are completely the opposite. I really like the overall vibe and I think with some more time as you get used to the company culture I believe you can be a great asset to the company.

Thanks for sharing with us and let us know when something new or even funny is happening there. :)

Cheers.

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@hive-195880 Thank you for the appreciation and sharing your thoughts!!!
It is a nice community to share stories of work-life and sharing working experience with Hive World.

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Hey man~ that's really nice of your CEO to bring you guys out to the beach area for the Mancomm meeting. And good luck with the new position. From what I know, what ever you chose is always the right decision! And you got the right boss CEO. :)

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@whangster79 yeah, it was something new for me and a great idea to take all the managers in fresh environment to discuss for the betterment of the company.
I am happy with my decision and yes, lucky to have a boss like him....
Thank you for checking on my post!!!

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Hello rosecane

Congratulation for the new position man.

You got also a good trip form your boss.
He must be awesome.

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@th4488 yeah, my Boss is awesome no doubt!!!! Thank you for the wishes and reading my article!!!

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