Business Skills

Face-to-face meetings

Kirstie Crail — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:21:08 +0100

Can you find the right tone in face-to-face meetings? Choose the correct middle section to create common phrases for informal meetings in the situations described below.

Brainstorming in meetings: No negative thoughts

Kirstie Crail — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:45:30 +0100

Brainstorming sessions should be positive. Rearrange the red letters to create nouns to complete these statements, which you could use to respond to negative comments.

Brainstorming in meetings: Great minds

Kirstie Crail — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:51:34 +0100

Choose the correct word from the box to form expressions with “mind”, all of which you could use to generate ideas in a brainstorming session.

Checking understanding

Deborah Capras — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:34:57 +0200

Have you ever come away from a meeting feeling that you've probably missed some of the main points or haven't really understood what's been decided? Maybe you should check your understanding more often.

Questions

Kirstie Crail — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:32:16 +0200

Knowing how to ask the right questions in face-to-face meetings, whether in a formal or informal setting, is an important business skill. We've created an exercise on the most common types of questions.

The best business idioms at work (8): brainstorming idioms

Deborah Capras — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:30:38 +0200

Brainstorming sessions are about generating new ideas. People should be encouraged to think differently about their areas of work and about the work of others. Learn some new expressions to get the session going!

etw. hervorbringen

Reporting a meeting

Deborah Capras — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:11:07 +0100

Could you complete our report of a meeting? For each question, we ask you to choose the correct verb. This test is about meaning — and grammar.

Arranging the next meeting in English

Deborah Capras — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:48:28 +0100

Unfortunately, we can't help you avoid any meetings, but maybe we can help you to organize them better and to get the most out of them.

das Beste aus etw. machen

Requests and responses

Deborah Capras — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:21:07 +0200

Alice, Peter and Sam are having a meeting to prepare for a future conference. They each have to make requests and respond to them. Let's see if you know what language they should use.

Chairing a meeting

Kirstie Crail — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:13:29 +0200

You've been given the task of chairing a meeting but are not sure if you're well prepared. Not every meeting has exactly the same topics, but most meetings have similar structures.

to chair sth. - den Vorsitz bei etw. führen