What to say in international meetings

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Be part of international meetings by saying the right thing

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International meetings

Discussion: Interrupting

Could you think of examples of interrupting others during a meeting? Especially during an international meeting!

What is the *‘right’ thing to say?

*Modal verbs:the principal English modal verbs are can, could, may, might, shall, should, will, would and must.

There is a very common way to ‘soften’ what you say. It is not really to apologise but it is used to tell the listener: ‘I’m going to say or do something you might not like, so please don’t get upset’.

Use I think or I feel

‘I feel quite strongly that we’re bringing this out too soon …’

‘I don’t think we’ve got any choice …’

Acknowledge people

Examples of polite interruptions

Meeting phrases

· I I called this meeting to …

· Talk through the figures (money)

· Prepared some hand-outs (paper) versus I have sent an attachment (digital)

· Redundancy (making the staff less/asking people to leave)

· Can I bring you up to date here? (Informing others)

· Heads up – to let you know important points in advance

· Talk you through (discuss in detail)

· The floor is yours – your opportunity to speak

· Go ahead [give someone permission to speak]

· Can we turn to you now?

· Let me finish what I was saying …

· Can I make another suggestion?

· Can we look at another point of view?

· Can we talk about that in a minute?

· Do you understand the core of the problem?

Wrapping up

Watch this video (3.41 minutes) and *discuss the language used in the meeting

*make notes!

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