Phrases to learn today for more confidence when you lead your next meeting in English

- So you need to lead a meeting

and in English this time.

Many of my clients come to me needing that same exact thing

and they wanna work on it

so that they don't feel nervous or waste their time

in meetings searching for their words.

In today's episode, I'll share my advice

as a neuro-language coach,

and you'll learn the phrases that you need

to lead a meeting in English with confidence.

Hi, I'm your English coach Christina,

and welcome to Business English with Christina

where you become better at English

and better at business.

In this lesson, I'll give you a look

at the way that I help my clients prepare

to lead meetings in English.

And the great news about leading a meeting in English

is that you can prepare

because every meeting has these six key moments

that you need to be ready for,

and once you know what you need to say

at each of these steps,

you'll feel much more confident

and you'll sound more natural too.

As a neuro language coach,

here's what I tell my clients.

You don't need to have perfect English

or become fluent before you can have effective meetings.

You just need to focus on the top expressions

that will help you the most.

And my clients have found

that by learning a few key phrases really well,

they feel a lot more confident in a short period of time,

and if you wanna work on the specifics

for one of your meetings,

of course, you can do that with one of my coaches

if you need to.

All right, you're ready to get started?

So I'm gonna give you an example

of how someone might lead a meeting

through those six key steps.

And I'll give you examples

of how we would do each step in English

so that you can start each part

of your meeting feeling confident.

And if you watch this video until the end,

I've got a special resource for you

that you can use to review all of today's expressions

in one place and use them to prepare your meetings.

All right, so in any business situation,

you'll need to know how to start

or to open your meeting.

And you could say something like this.

Good morning, everyone.

It looks like everyone's here,

so let's get started.

And of course, after that,

you'll probably want to share the purpose of the meeting

so everyone knows why you're taking their valuable time.

And you can use a phrase like this.

Our goal today is to discuss our new client

and our next deadline.

And, of course, you can put your own specific goal

in the place of discuss our new client and deadline.

But the idea is to think ahead

of what is the goal for this meeting,

and can you summarize it in one sentence

so that everyone feels ready?

Then once you've stated the goal,

you wanna tell your team

what's gonna happen first, next, after

so they know what to expect.

For example, you might say,

first, I have a presentation for you

about our client's needs.

Then we'll discuss which tasks will be assigned

to each of your departments,

and you'll be able to let me know

if you'll need help meeting the new deadlines.

Afterwards, we'll have a question and answer session.

And before we go into the things for parts four,

five and six of your meeting,

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All right, number four,

if you're leading a meeting,

you want to keep the meeting going

so that people pay attention to you.

Listen to these examples of transitions from a meeting,

and see if you can catch the three expressions

that you can use to move from one topic to the next.

Let's start with the presentation about our client.

Now let's move on to assigning the tasks

that your departments will be responsible for.

Okay, so if everyone understands your department's role

in assisting the new client,

we can move on to our Q&A session.

And, of course, fortunately, every meeting has an end.

So if you wanna know how to close your meeting naturally

and confidently in English,

you want to say what happened

to summarize or to recap what you decided or discussed.

Here are some things that you can say.

All right, just to recap,

each department can find their assigned tasks

and deadlines in the new document.

To sum up what we discussed in the Q&A session,

there were several questions about adding new team members

to help with the increased demand.

And as requested, we'll ask human resources

to look into that and get to get back to us.

And now you can really close the meeting

with confidence, thank everyone for coming,

and let them know when the next meeting is

'cause there's always a next meeting.

For that, you can simply say

I wanna thank everyone for coming,

and we'll meet again in two weeks

so that we can discuss our progress.

I know that leading a meeting can seem scary in English

but you would be amazed at how much better you can feel

if you go into the situation prepared

and you know what's coming.

You'll save a lot of focus, a lot of energy,

you'll have more confidence and by doing that,

you'll actually have an easier time improvising,

responding to surprise questions

and thinking on your feet.

And I promised you a surprise at the end of this video.

So if you have a meeting to prepare

or if you just don't want to forget these new phrases

that you learned, go over to my blog,

and I'll put the link down below the video,

and you can see all of the steps that I've shared with you

in this video so that you take your time,

note the phrases, learn them

and even maybe personalize some things

for your own meetings and feel more confident.

All right, and like we say in English,

if you don't use it, you lose it.

So here's how you can use what you learned today.

Write down the opening to your meeting.

Say hello to everyone, that you're ready to start,

and then write down the goal of your meeting.

Think about that, and prepare for that.

And see if you can practice just starting your next meeting

in English until you're comfortable and confident.

And if this lesson was helpful for you,

I would love to know,

and there are three simple ways that you can do that.

Give me a thumbs up on YouTube

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so that I continue helping you

with your business English.

You can go over to my website

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so that I can help you to build solid English habits

for life-long learning.

The link down there, it's below the video.

And if you wanna continue learning with me right now,

you can watch this next lesson

all about introducing yourself in a meeting in English.

And finally, I wanna thank all of you

for improving your English

with Business English with Christina.

And I'll see you next time.