Article Contributed by Claudia Metura
Organizations of any size and every industry are adopting to business video conferencing as a best way to stay connected, increase their productivity and the last but not the least cutting down the costs in these difficult economic times. And as the prices on all these equipment’s drop down and technology tends to become easier especially while using video conferencing, it generally turns out to be the most effective way of communicating with the employees, customers and the sales prospects. Below given are the 7 major benefits business video conferencing for your business in 2016.
Reducing the travel costs: The ability to be in all places at once without leaving office is one of the most difficult thing when it comes to the business productivity. And though the face to face interactions with all your clients and customers, partners, and colleagues could never be placed, the huge leaps in terms of quality, availability, and ease of use make video conferencing is the closest thing of being there.
Having your employees connected: Video communication helps you retain all the valuable employees of your organization who have to relocate, and need to work from home for a few days. This would definitely help in saving costly retaining or recruiting fees been associated, with hiring a new employee. This would also help the employees who are on road to quickly react and keep a track record of all the new policies, developments and insights to the day to day operations. Being limited by geography is one of the best thing to do in past.
Improving the work life balance: Excessive travelling could easily kill your employees unused to the tough hours on the road. And as a small business owner and consultant, it does become important to make sure that you do not burn out either. Eliminating or atleast reducing the need for travel would take a great deal of stress that you cannot afford to lose. And when you have to be out on road teleconferencing helps you stay connected with all your clients and customers. Having bad weather or the unforeseen circumstances could leave your consultants and the business owners stranded on the way to meeting, but web conferencing circumvents the headaches of cancelled flights, long drives and testy weather.
Emulating face to face: Face to face business communications is one of the best ways and effective form of communication, but having a personal meeting is something that is not always possible. Video conferencing here allows you to enjoy all the benefits of in personal meetings, when it comes to seeing someone else body language which is where the process of voice communication lacks. Face to face communications helps the employees of your business organization to stay connected with each other’s especially with the members of their team, and is actually the most important when it comes to telecommunicating or frequently travelling employees.
Increases the productivity of your business organization: Most of the business organizations generally now have features that would allow them to share and edit documents, power point, Visio etc in real time. The ability to easily share and communicate with the employees within the organization has added to another dynamic to video communications that were previously not possible. Decisions here are made faster, products and services are brought to market quicker and your cycles could easily be reduced. These would again help in increasing the sales, improve the operational efficiency allowing businesses to stay ahead of their competitors.
The benefits of business video conferencing are in many ways that could ease the burden of your business and personal lives. So what other benefits would you like to add to the list above. Do leave your thoughts below.
Author Bio
Claudia Metura is an expert in the IT industry with over 12 years of experience. She has collaborated with various companies to work on Improving corporate online video solutions for business.
One reply on “5 Major Benefits of Business Video Conferencing for Your Business in 2016”
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