Meetings

How This Module Contributes to Your Development

Meetings are a regular part of professional life, and their success depends on how well they are planned, led, and managed. Knowing how to set clear objectives, participate in discussions, express agreement or disagreement, ask questions, and keep the conversation focused can make meetings more productive.

This module develops the language and communication skills needed before, during, and after a meeting. It can help you participate more actively, communicate your ideas clearly, manage different opinions, and ensure that decisions and actions are properly followed up.

These skills are useful for face-to-face meetings, teleconferences, and virtual meetings, as well as for the emails, reports, minutes, and proposals that often surround them.

This module focuses on communicating effectively in professional meetings.

It begins with preparing for a meeting, including setting objectives, creating agendas, announcing meetings, responding to invitations, and rescheduling when necessary. You will also explore the language used to introduce topics and guide a meeting.

The module then looks at what happens during the meeting: taking part in discussions, agreeing and disagreeing, using hedging, asking for clarification, managing interruptions, directing attention, and keeping the discussion focused. You will also work on language for leading meetings and participating more effectively.

Other sections deal with teleconferencing, reporting and referring to information, discussing data and monetary amounts, taking notes, and writing meeting minutes. You will also practise using English to summarize information and communicate decisions clearly.

The final part focuses on brainstorming, creating and discussing proposals, improving written proposals, and making decisions based on meeting discussions.

Overall, the module combines meeting language, business vocabulary, practical communication strategies, and realistic workplace situations to help you communicate more effectively before, during, and after professional meetings.

Do you want to know more about this specialization? 

Call us now 

0540-325-192