Where do you sit during business meetings? #Your Seat # reveals a lot about your role.

If we think back to school days, especially when moving from one class to another or even from school to school. On the first day you enter the class and in your mind one idea to leave good impressions of others, the first dilemma facing you is the choice of the seat, if you decide to sit in the front row you will be considered that you are doing nothing but the lesson and if you choose the seat in the last seats then Either you will be considered to be hiding or you will automatically be classified as a hooligan.

There is a kind of non-verbal communication that occurs when people share the same spatial space, be it a classroom, living room or meeting room.

Seats and their association with the role.

Each seat in the conference room serves a specific purpose and reveals a lot about the person who sits in it and its role in the organization at least psychologically. The place where you sit during meetings may increase the proportion of confrontation, success or participation.

Seat's of Strength And Authority.

It is the most prominent seat in the room and can be seen clearly and usually at the end of the table facing the door. The person who sits there can see everyone, see who is entering and who is leaving, and can make visual contact with everyone who is sitting in the room and thus giving them greater ability to influence.

The seat sits, in general, the person with the highest title in the room, the manager, the executive director or any other person. This place puts the person in the middle of conversations and discussions, and in one way or another is the starting point that manages and controls the discussion and conversations. If you are seeking attention and managing the conversation, you can "steal" this chair in case there is no clear instruction that this seat should not be seated by anyone other than the manager.

Second man seat.

Two seats representing the second degree after the top of the pyramid are to the right and left of the manager's seat. In traditional meetings where there is a predetermined place to sit, you will find the two people who represent the "second man" after the director. If there is no traditional pattern of meetings or mechanism of sitting, there are usually people who seek to get to that position or to advance in professional life.

If you have the option to sit in any seat, consider these things. A study by the University of Oregon showed that the seat to the left of the manager's seat will not serve you and will not make you look like a strong position or have any influence while the seat to the right of the director. Gives you greater “impact”.


The seat to the left of the power seat makes you look like a "follower" of the power holder while the seat to his right makes you look like the "right hand" to him and thus have your own strength and influence.

Pivot point seat.

The seat of power, as we said, is the most prominent seat in the room, while the seat of the focal point is the seat that is seen directly by the power holder, which is usually at the opposite end of the seat of power. The person sitting there has something to say inside the meeting with the intention of conducting the discussion and expressing his opinion.

No seat stands out more than this seat because it allows the person sitting there to control the course of things. But when you choose that seat in the meeting room, you have to deal with what happens inside the meeting room with caution.After all, you are sitting at the opposite end of the authority, which means that there is a suggestion of a confrontation of some sort and therefore your message to the authority that you are a competitor must be taken into account.

Interlocutor Seat.

The seats that fall between the primary and secondary power seats mentioned above should also be handled with care. These seats, which are against other seats, can create an environment of confrontation and defensive logic that increases the rate of debate to debate and thus the high rate of hostility and that is why the "competitors" are placed in any competition was to confront each other.

Sitting to the left of a person reduces the rate of hostility and makes the person seem more kind and less inclined to confront, some automatically choose to sit next to people who have a good relationship in the workplace or who think they have the same thinking mechanism. But this seat can be exploited for your own benefit and thus sit to the left of your fellow relationship.

But what about unconventional meeting rooms?

Currently, most companies no longer rely on a square or rectangular table. The meeting rooms have become less traditional and therefore the table is either circular or oval and some are even U-shaped in an effort to give everyone the opportunity to talk without distinction between a person sitting at the top of the table And others are listening.

In this case the seat of the Authority will not be at the top of the meeting table but will be in the middle so that the seat facing the door. The same rules apply to the seat of the second man and the interlocutor.
But depending on the shape of the table adopted, the focal point seat may be facing the power seat or may not exist at all, so if your goal is to talk and express your point of view, you should not rely on where you sit and talk about what you want to talk about.