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v1.0 可编辑可修改 流利说商务英语 Level4 Unit1 Part3 Chairing a Meeting I Here are some tips on how to run an effective meeting: State the objective At the beginning of a meeting, you should state the objectives clearly. It helps everybody understand the purpose of the meeting. Without a clear objective, attendees of the meeting maylose focus easily. Here are some ways to introduce a meeting objective: We are here today to discuss our new marketing strategies. Our aim is to figure out new promotion strategies. Review notes of the last meeting You can use your notes from your last meeting to guide your current one. You can review previous takeaways before presenting new ideas. I ’d like to quickly go through what we decided at yesterday ’s meeting. Let ’ s go over the budget plan from the last meeting. Allocate responsibilities It ’s important to keep track of what ’s discussed in the meeting. So make sure to allocate roles to attendees. For example, you can politely ask someone to take notes by saying:would 1 v1.0 可编辑可修改 you mind taking the meeting minutes You could also inform attendees that someoneis responsible for a certain task. Anne has kindly agreed to be the time keeper for us. Introduce your first agenda item Before you start your meeting, make sure everyone has the meeting agenda. Then you can present agenda items. You should begin with the most important item on the agenda. To introduce it, you can say:Let ’s start with our new marketing strategies. The first item on the agenda is how to make our online advertising more effective. Close an agenda item After discussing an agenda item, let attendees know that the discussion should move forward onto the next item. You can do this with a closing statement. For example, you can say: Let ’s moveto the next item. It looks like we’ve covered the main points of this item. If no one has anything else to add, we can continue on to the next item. 2