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Unit 11 Meetings
I,Review
1,Taking part in a meeting
a,Find out what the other people think:
Mr,Smith,
what’s your
opinion?
What are
your
views on
this,John?
Mr,Brown,
what do
you think
about this?
I,Reviewing
1,Taking part in a meeting
b,Interrupt someone and put forward your own opinion:
If I could just
make a point
here…
Could I make
a suggestion?
Sorry to interrupt,
but I’d just like to
say that …
It seems to
me that …
I,Reviewing
1,Taking part in a meeting
c,Find out if the others have understood or if they agree with you:
Do you
see what I
mean?
Are you
with me?
Don’t you
agree,Simon?
Does anyone
object?
I,Reviewing
1,Taking part in a meeting
d,Show that you don’t understand what someone has said:
Sorry,could you say that again,please?
I’m sorry,I didn’t catch what you said.
Sorry,I didn’t quite understand.
Sorry,I’m not quite with you.
I,Reviewing
2,One-to-one meetings
a,Greeting to each other
b,Starting the meeting
c,Keep the meeting going
d,Ending the meeting
II,Different kinds of meetings
1,Leading in ---- get the idea
Formal
Meetings
Informal
II,Different kinds of meetings
1,Leading in ---- get the idea
Large
Meetings
Small
II,Different kinds of meetings
Large committee meeting
Management meeting
Staff meeting
More than two persons meetings
One-to-one meetings
Meeting between a supplier
and a customer
Internal meeting between a
manager and one of the staff
member,etc,
Social meetings ---- informal
1,Leading in ---- get the idea
II,Different kinds of meetings
Possible way out for different cases
(1) one-to-one meeting (two people involved)
(2) a meeting of four or five people involved (heads of relevant
departments,etc.)
(3) a meeting of about ten people involved (heads of all departments,etc.)
(4) a meeting of everyone in the department involved (staff meetings,etc.)
(5) a meeting of everyone in the company involved
(6) no meeting,but one person decide what to do and then inform
everyone by phone or by sending out a memo.
II,Different kinds of meetings
2,Situations
a,A large,influential customer continually pays
later,Your sales manager and credit controller
have politely and repeatedly complained but this
hasn’t made any difference,The time has come
to decide what to do about this.
Problems
II,Different kinds of meetings
2,Situations
b,In a small factory the older workers are
ignoring safety rules and encouraging the
younger ones to do the same,Some of
these rules may be excessively cautions
and the older workers’ production rates are
very good.
Problems:
II,Different kinds of meetings
2,Situations
c,In a medium-sized factory,groups of
workers operate as teams,One group has
been getting poor results than the other
teams and verbal warnings have had no
effect.
Problems:
II,Different kinds of meetings
2,Situations
d,The firm is having a bad year and it will
probably be necessary to make five members
of the office staff redundant,The normal
policy is,last in ---- first out”.
Problems:
II,Different kinds of meetings
2,Situations
e,Someone has been leaking information
about your firm’s products to your competitor,
It may be a member of your staff or one of
your preferred suppliers.
Problems:
II,Different kinds of meetings
2,Situations
f,The board requires a report on your
department’s long-term plans over the next
ten years.
Problems:
II,Different kinds of meetings
2,Situations
g,The territories covered by your sales force have
been unchanged for ten years,A revision of the
boundaries might make the team more efficient.
Problems:
II,Different kinds of meetings
2,Situations
h,There is to be a company picnic next month and
everything has to be planned and organized.
Problems:
II,Different kinds of meetings
3,Practice ---- an integral activity
Hold a meeting,
To investigate ways of improving working
conditions in the office.
Decide
? what kind of meeting should be held?
? how could the chairperson chair the meeting?
? How could you participate the meeting?
II,Different kinds of meetings
4,Summarizing:
Different kinds
of meetings
Various problems
and proposals
III,Homework
What are the other cases that a meeting
need to be held to make proposals to the
management committee?
? if …,then we need to hold a meeting to …
? …,in this case,we need to hold a meeting to …
Good bye!
Unit 11 Meetings
I,Review
1,Taking part in a meeting
a,Find out what the other people think:
Mr,Smith,
what’s your
opinion?
What are
your
views on
this,John?
Mr,Brown,
what do
you think
about this?
I,Reviewing
1,Taking part in a meeting
b,Interrupt someone and put forward your own opinion:
If I could just
make a point
here…
Could I make
a suggestion?
Sorry to interrupt,
but I’d just like to
say that …
It seems to
me that …
I,Reviewing
1,Taking part in a meeting
c,Find out if the others have understood or if they agree with you:
Do you
see what I
mean?
Are you
with me?
Don’t you
agree,Simon?
Does anyone
object?
I,Reviewing
1,Taking part in a meeting
d,Show that you don’t understand what someone has said:
Sorry,could you say that again,please?
I’m sorry,I didn’t catch what you said.
Sorry,I didn’t quite understand.
Sorry,I’m not quite with you.
I,Reviewing
2,One-to-one meetings
a,Greeting to each other
b,Starting the meeting
c,Keep the meeting going
d,Ending the meeting
II,Different kinds of meetings
1,Leading in ---- get the idea
Formal
Meetings
Informal
II,Different kinds of meetings
1,Leading in ---- get the idea
Large
Meetings
Small
II,Different kinds of meetings
Large committee meeting
Management meeting
Staff meeting
More than two persons meetings
One-to-one meetings
Meeting between a supplier
and a customer
Internal meeting between a
manager and one of the staff
member,etc,
Social meetings ---- informal
1,Leading in ---- get the idea
II,Different kinds of meetings
Possible way out for different cases
(1) one-to-one meeting (two people involved)
(2) a meeting of four or five people involved (heads of relevant
departments,etc.)
(3) a meeting of about ten people involved (heads of all departments,etc.)
(4) a meeting of everyone in the department involved (staff meetings,etc.)
(5) a meeting of everyone in the company involved
(6) no meeting,but one person decide what to do and then inform
everyone by phone or by sending out a memo.
II,Different kinds of meetings
2,Situations
a,A large,influential customer continually pays
later,Your sales manager and credit controller
have politely and repeatedly complained but this
hasn’t made any difference,The time has come
to decide what to do about this.
Problems
II,Different kinds of meetings
2,Situations
b,In a small factory the older workers are
ignoring safety rules and encouraging the
younger ones to do the same,Some of
these rules may be excessively cautions
and the older workers’ production rates are
very good.
Problems:
II,Different kinds of meetings
2,Situations
c,In a medium-sized factory,groups of
workers operate as teams,One group has
been getting poor results than the other
teams and verbal warnings have had no
effect.
Problems:
II,Different kinds of meetings
2,Situations
d,The firm is having a bad year and it will
probably be necessary to make five members
of the office staff redundant,The normal
policy is,last in ---- first out”.
Problems:
II,Different kinds of meetings
2,Situations
e,Someone has been leaking information
about your firm’s products to your competitor,
It may be a member of your staff or one of
your preferred suppliers.
Problems:
II,Different kinds of meetings
2,Situations
f,The board requires a report on your
department’s long-term plans over the next
ten years.
Problems:
II,Different kinds of meetings
2,Situations
g,The territories covered by your sales force have
been unchanged for ten years,A revision of the
boundaries might make the team more efficient.
Problems:
II,Different kinds of meetings
2,Situations
h,There is to be a company picnic next month and
everything has to be planned and organized.
Problems:
II,Different kinds of meetings
3,Practice ---- an integral activity
Hold a meeting,
To investigate ways of improving working
conditions in the office.
Decide
? what kind of meeting should be held?
? how could the chairperson chair the meeting?
? How could you participate the meeting?
II,Different kinds of meetings
4,Summarizing:
Different kinds
of meetings
Various problems
and proposals
III,Homework
What are the other cases that a meeting
need to be held to make proposals to the
management committee?
? if …,then we need to hold a meeting to …
? …,in this case,we need to hold a meeting to …
Good bye!
