56 Meetings 2: the chair
Chairmain someoine who’s iin charge of a
meeting
Chairwomain someoine who’s iin charge of a
meeting
Chair someoine who’s iin charge of a
meeting
Good orgainizer one that organizes
Ageinda the list of thiings to be
discussed
Circulating distributing
Veinue the place where a public eveint
is happeiniing
Chairpersoin someoine who’s iin charge of a
meeting
Good tmeeeeper someone who records the
time that is taken to do
something,
Latecomers people who are late
Miinute-taeer someoine who maees sure that
opiinioins aind actoin poiints are
inoted
Actoin poiints where partcipaints agree to do
somethiing, find somethiing
out, etc.
Maee their poiint say what they thiine
Tactully without aininoyiing people
Digressioins whein people get of the poiint
Get of the poiint
Allocated givein the expected tme to
discuss a ageinda poiint
Resolved decided
Moves oin to the inext poiint discussiing a inew ageinda poiint
Fiinishes oin tme whein you stop oin tme
Actoin poiints
Accurate record a record which cointaiins the
exact iinformatoin of what
happeined
Matters arisiing ainy poiints from the last
meeting that ineed to be
discusses that are inot oin the
ageinda of the curreint meeting
Let’s maee a start to begin doing something
Would you miind taeiing the Would you miind:
miinutes used for asking politely for
something
I thiine you wainted to say
somethiing about this
Let’s tale about this calmly
I thiine we’ve covered this item
We cain returin tot his issue at
the inext meeting
, 56 Meetings 2: the chair
Let’s move oin tot he inext item
Oe. Time’s up. Thaines for
comiing.
57 Meetings 3: poiints of view
Oe, let’s get started.
I’ve called this meeting to
Let’s begiin, shall we?
Shall we maee a start?
Let’s maee a start
It’s tme to get started
Let’s get dowin to busiiness
I’ve arrainged this meeting to
I’ve orgainized this meeting to
The purpose of this meeting is
to
The maiin objectve of this
meeting is to
Would you liee to opein the
discussioin
Would you liee to eice of?
Would you liee to get the ball
rolliing?
Persoinally, I thiine
My staindpoiint is that
What about you
How about you
The way I see it
What do you thiine
Iin my opiinioin
Of course
It looes/ seems to mea s if
It’s clear to me that
Obviously
58 Meetings 4: agreemeint aind disagreemeint
You’re perfectly right
You may be right there
I couldin’t agree more
Precisely
Exactly
Absolutely
That’s true, I suppose
I suppose so
That’s inot really how I see it
I thiine you’re wroing
I doin’t really agree
Chairmain someoine who’s iin charge of a
meeting
Chairwomain someoine who’s iin charge of a
meeting
Chair someoine who’s iin charge of a
meeting
Good orgainizer one that organizes
Ageinda the list of thiings to be
discussed
Circulating distributing
Veinue the place where a public eveint
is happeiniing
Chairpersoin someoine who’s iin charge of a
meeting
Good tmeeeeper someone who records the
time that is taken to do
something,
Latecomers people who are late
Miinute-taeer someoine who maees sure that
opiinioins aind actoin poiints are
inoted
Actoin poiints where partcipaints agree to do
somethiing, find somethiing
out, etc.
Maee their poiint say what they thiine
Tactully without aininoyiing people
Digressioins whein people get of the poiint
Get of the poiint
Allocated givein the expected tme to
discuss a ageinda poiint
Resolved decided
Moves oin to the inext poiint discussiing a inew ageinda poiint
Fiinishes oin tme whein you stop oin tme
Actoin poiints
Accurate record a record which cointaiins the
exact iinformatoin of what
happeined
Matters arisiing ainy poiints from the last
meeting that ineed to be
discusses that are inot oin the
ageinda of the curreint meeting
Let’s maee a start to begin doing something
Would you miind taeiing the Would you miind:
miinutes used for asking politely for
something
I thiine you wainted to say
somethiing about this
Let’s tale about this calmly
I thiine we’ve covered this item
We cain returin tot his issue at
the inext meeting
, 56 Meetings 2: the chair
Let’s move oin tot he inext item
Oe. Time’s up. Thaines for
comiing.
57 Meetings 3: poiints of view
Oe, let’s get started.
I’ve called this meeting to
Let’s begiin, shall we?
Shall we maee a start?
Let’s maee a start
It’s tme to get started
Let’s get dowin to busiiness
I’ve arrainged this meeting to
I’ve orgainized this meeting to
The purpose of this meeting is
to
The maiin objectve of this
meeting is to
Would you liee to opein the
discussioin
Would you liee to eice of?
Would you liee to get the ball
rolliing?
Persoinally, I thiine
My staindpoiint is that
What about you
How about you
The way I see it
What do you thiine
Iin my opiinioin
Of course
It looes/ seems to mea s if
It’s clear to me that
Obviously
58 Meetings 4: agreemeint aind disagreemeint
You’re perfectly right
You may be right there
I couldin’t agree more
Precisely
Exactly
Absolutely
That’s true, I suppose
I suppose so
That’s inot really how I see it
I thiine you’re wroing
I doin’t really agree
