Thank you very much for being ...

With a short agenda for Friday's meeting, everyone is hoping it will ________ quickly so they can start their weekend early

To _________ means to come up with different ideas and suggestions until something good comes up.

We need to............. a meeting.

What is prepared AFTER a meeting that describes the discussions, decisions, and actions that occurred during a business meeting?

Why do we need to estimate the length of meeting?

Who makes sure the meeting is functioning correctly?

To keep a meeting moving at a comfortable pace, the chair should

succeed in doing

deal with; speak on

list of objectives to cover in a meeting

assign roles/tasks to certain people

Annual (yearly) General Meeting

Any Other Business (unspecified item on agenda)

Let's take a few minutes and _______ some ways that we can cut costs.

board of directors : group of elected members of an organisation/company who meet to make decisions

The written record of everything that's happened during a meeting.

What should you include when writing meeting minutes? (you can choose more than one)

What is the main purpose of a business meeting?

What to Include in Meeting Minutes?

to go to a meeting

working in a group to think of some new fresh ideas

to decide that a planned meeting will not happen [the date is not changed, it is eliminated]

to begin/start a meeting

to be in charge of the meeting; to lead the meeting

to take longer time than was expected or scheduled

to change the date of a meeting to a later date than was originally planned

to change the time that a meeting was scheduled to a different time [either earlier or later]

to end a meeting

topics to be covered in the meeting

to write down notes about everything that is talked about in the meeting

the business plan for success

useful; efficient

outcomes; effects