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The Guide for Business Meetings Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by

Introducing a Meeting

This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.

1- Introd­ucing a Meeting

Good Morning / Afternoon, everyone.
It´s a pleasure to see you here.
Thank you all for coming.
Thanks for taking the time to attend this meeting.

2- Beginning a Meeting

Let´s get started then, shall we?
Can we start?
May we begin?
Shall we proceed?

3- Stating Meetings Aims

We’re here today to discuss...
The purpose of this meeting is to...
The reason I invited you to this meeting is...
Our aim is to...
I´ve called this meeting in order to...

4- Introd­ucing the agenda

There are three items on the agenda today...
I´d like to discuss about X, Y and Z today.
Let´s talk about...

5- Refe­rring to Visuals

As you can see from this slide…
I would like to draw your attention to this graphic…
On the right/left hand side...
Please scroll up/down.
It's in the XXX column.
In row XXX.
 

6- When things get digres­sed

Could we stick to the agenda?
Let’s try to stay on track; the agenda point is…
We're getting side-t­racked.
Let’s try to stay on track; the agenda point is…

7- Engaging your audience

What’s your opinion on that?
What is your point of view?
Any though­ts/­com­ments on this?
Do you have anything to add?
Does everyone agree with it?
Can we vote on that?

8- Wrapping up the meeting

We´re short in time, so let´s wrap this up.
Let´s keep this to 10 minutes...
We´ll discuss this topic in another moment.

9- Thanking Partic­ipa­nts

Thanks for your time today.
Thank you for your partic­ipation today.
I appreciate your attendance and input - thanks a lot.
I am very glad you were able to attend.