Business Meeting Skills

Skills Focus: Speaking, Listening, Writing, Pronunciation, Business English.

The aim of Business Meeting Skills is to increase your personal confidence and expertise when preparing for, conducting or participating in a business meeting. Business Meeting Skills develops your Business English, Speaking, Listening and Writing skills necessary for effective leadership.

We do this by: 

• Understanding the goals of the meeting and asking the right preparation questions
• Creating an active to-do list
• Exploring ways in which to build immediate rapport with colleagues and clients, including understanding body language and developing skills in intercultural competence
• Expanding vocabulary and language for clear communication and leadership
• Polite language to enforce ground rules and passionate discussion.

Course (12 hours) – starts from $1,200: Business Meeting Skills contains 3 focus areas. Each focus area is designed to be delivered in 2X2 hour sessions. However, this timeframe is variable according to client’s needs.

Workshops: (2 hours – $200): Choose a topic and focus area that suits your goals.

*Discounts apply for group bookings / corporate rates

Course outline:

PART 1 – MEETING PREPARATION                                                    PART 2 – CONDUCTING THE MEETING

The to-do list…                                                                                        Ok! Let’s get things underway…

• Meeting scenario                                                                              – Starting the meeting / establishing the tone
• Pre-meeting preparation questions                                              – Language to drive the meeting
• Allocating roles / responsibilities / administration                    – Managing the participants views and opinions
• Setting the ground rules                                                                  – Ending the meeting / post-meeting follow-up

PART  3 – PARTICIPATING IN A MEETING

Excuse me, I’d like to say something…

• Preparing for your meeting / reflection time
• Understanding the ground rules / participating in discussion
• My post-meeting to-do list / developing new ideas

Contact us for a free Language & Needs Analysis, or to talk about your needs – info@englishfit.com.au