Lead a Business Meeting in English | 10 Must-Have Strategies for Success

How do you start, manage, and end a business meeting or decision-making conversation effectively, ensuring that, by the end, everyone is satisfied and that the primary goals of the meeting were accomplished?

It’s no easy task.

Whether you regularly host meetings but struggle with the confidence of doing them in English or you are unexpectedly tasked to do so, today you’ll learn 10 must-have strategies for success when leading a meeting in English (with example phrases along the way)

A quick Google search will highlight the importance of starting and ending your meeting on time and creating an agenda. 

We will briefly talk about each of those with common English phrases that are used.

That said, we’re going far and above the basic strategies. In this Confident Lesson today, you’ll also gain lesser-known strategies that ensure preparedness and smooth communication.

Ultimately, everyone will walk away from your meeting/discussion feeling it was worth their time and they are clear about what’s next.

Here are the 10 strategies you’ll learn:

• Set and share the agenda

• Prepare your key points

• Determine and communicate the purpose

• Open the meeting

• Model active listening skills

• Ask targeted questions

• Minimize off-track conversations 

• Say your point and stop talking

• Give thanks where thanks is due

• Close with your final action steps