Speak Confident English – Lead a Business Meeting in English
Speak Confident English – Lead a Business Meeting in English is a lesson from Annemarie of Speak Confident English on chairing a meeting, built around ten strategies that run from the preparation to the final action steps. Each strategy is explained and then supplied with the English to carry it out: sharing an agenda in advance, opening and handling introductions, asking strategic, eliciting, recognition and help questions, bringing a conversation back on track, thanking a colleague for specific work, and summarizing before the close. A video accompanies the text.
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How It Helps Your Business English
The page lists the ten strategies, then gives each one a section. One to three cover the preparation, four the phrases for opening and for introductions, five and six listening and the four kinds of question to ask, seven the lines for bringing a conversation back to the agenda, eight and nine saying a point once and thanking a colleague, and ten the closing phrases.
You get the wording for the two moments that are hardest when you chair in English: stopping a colleague who has taken the meeting off course, where six polite versions are given, and closing with a summary and the next steps. The questions in strategy six are worth keeping beside you, since they are what draw a quiet participant into the discussion.
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