© 2015 albert-learning.com Conducting Business Meetings Every business, whether it has 2 employees or 2000, has meetings as a regular part of getting things done. Conducting Business Meetings

© 2015 albert-learning.com Conducting Business Meetings Adjourn : break off (a meeting, legal case, or game) with the intention of resuming it later Consensus : agreement by general consent, no formal vote being taken Convene : to call a meeting Unanimous : all being in favor Shelve : to drop a motion which has no support Vocabulary

© 2015 albert-learning.com Conducting Business Meetings  Create a manual to develop a working format for proper parliamentary  procedure.  Create an agenda.  Devise a "minutes" document.  Appoint a member to be a parliamentarian, if the chair is not one  already.  Make sure that members understand the parliamentary procedure.

© 2015 albert-learning.com Conducting Business Meetings  Welcoming and Introducing Participants  Stating the Principal Objectives of a Meeting  Reading the Minutes (Notes) of the Last Meeting  Agreeing on the Ground Rules for the Meeting  Introducing the First Item on the Agenda

© 2015 albert-learning.com Conducting Business Meetings  Closing an Item  Next Item  Finishing Up  Suggesting and Agreeing on Time, Date and Place for the Next Meeting

© 2015 albert-learning.com Conducting Business Meetings Let us review…. o As discussed, we need to __________ the pending charges. o Hence it is the ________ consent of the meeting. o ________ any meeting with social care straight away. o Lets _______ the meeting to allow the matter to be sorted out. o _______ in favor of the BBC license fee. Convene Shelve Adjourn Unanimous Consensus

© 2015 albert-learning.com Conducting Business Meetings Make sentences  Adjourn  Consensus  Convene  Unanimous  Shelve

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