Business+meetings

[|Better meetings]
This video has some practical tips for companies to make meetings more effective, and interesting.

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[|Participating in a Meeting]
This link was suggested by Christina (Bertelsmann BAIM 2005) and it provides a list of phrases for taking part actively in meetings. The list covers areas such as Getting the Chairperson's Attention, Giving Opinions, Asking for Opinions, Agreeing, Disagreeing, and so on. In fact the list is very long indeed. So how would you use this list? It is clearly not possible to learn and memorize all the phrases. So what would you suggest. If you have any useful suggestions, please use the discussion tab to post them.

[|Business meeting listening]
At this www.esl-lab.com link you can get a little listening practice listening to an extract from a discussion at a sporting goods company. Listen to the recording and answer the questions.

[|Chairing a meeting]
This www.meetingwizard.org link outlines the skills and qualities needed to run a business meeting succesfully. Make sure you click on continue to access the whole text.

**[|BT Business game]**
This interactive business game (sponsored by BT) was spotted by Mark Powell the well known business communication trainer and materials developer. The idea is you take over as CEO of a company and have to make ethical decisions as you go along. At each stage you can see the implications of your decisions as well as your popularity rating with different stakeholders. News bulletins give you advance information you may be able to use later in the game. You can do a longer or much shorter version, depending on the time you have (you can also save the game and return to it), and at the end you read a mock-authentic news article which reports your success or failure as CEO.

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