Reuniões em Inglês

How to hold a productive meeting:

• Decide whether the meeting is really necessary;
• If you just need to give info to workers, it’s better to use e-mail or memo;
• Invite only those who really need to attend the meeting;
• Send out the agenda and reading material before;
• Small meeting, with few people, tend to be more focused than large ones;
• Start the meeting on time, and don’t let it run on too long;
• Dramatic solution – Take away the chairs and hold short meetings standing up.

Useful Meeting Phrases:

• On the agenda today;
• Ok everybody, thanks for coming;
• Just a couple of things on the agenda;
• If we could go through them in order;
• Right then….let’s go down to business;
• First of all, Secondly, Finally;
• Let’s keep this meeting fairly brief;
• Any other business;
• I’m sorry to interrupt;
• Can I just say something here?;
• I’m afraid I disagree;
• I’m sorry, could you repeat that please?;
• That’s a good point;
• I see where you’re coming from;
• What do you think?