MEETINGS

Level: Intermediate through Advanced

Target Audience: HR people, traders, sales managers, team leaders, etc.

Time availability: Two 4-hr sessions

Abstract:
How to hold effective meetings when English is not your first language.

Formal meetings and informal meetings produce results

Excerpts from “Managing Meetings” by Tom Hindle and “Managing Meetings” by Paul Brown. Reading, terminology, discussion

Language of meetings, review and usefulness

How to express complex and long ideas (revision of sentence structure in English and complex tenses). Connectors (last call to learn to use them!)

The importance of planning ahead. Effective meetings produce results. Discuss. Competing Conversations.


Sharing a meeting: assigning roles, preparation, feedback on delivery.