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Organising The Agenda

By Nik Peachey

The agenda

• How many of the meetings you organise/attend have an agenda?
• How is the agenda created?
• Who creates the agenda?
• What is the role of the agenda in the meeting?
• How are the items on the agenda ordered?

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Organising the agenda

• Staff on maternity leave

• A new member of staff

• The office party

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• A new contract

• Any other business

• Possible redundancies

• Annual profit report

• Market research results

Discussion

Organising the agenda

• How important do you think it is that these items appear in a specific order?
• What factors did you take into account when ordering these items?

• Staff on maternity leave

• A new member of staff

• The office party

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• A new contract

• Any other business

• Possible redundancies

• Annual profit report

• Market research results

Listening: Organise the agenda

• Staff on maternity leave

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• A new member of staff

• The office party

• A new contract

• Any other business

• Possible redundancies

• Annual profit report

• Market research results

Dictation

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Expressions

a. Opening the meetingb. Introducing a new member of staffc. Introducing a new topicd. Introducing the next topice. Introducing some bad newsf. Introducing some good newsg. Introducing the last part of the agendah. Giving people a chance to raise any issues

1. Firstly, as you can all see, we have a new face at the table.
2. Is there any other business or anything anyone wants to bring up?
3. Let’s get the meeting started.
4. Next on the agenda is the annual profit report.
5. Next, on the good news side
6. Now to get down to the serious business
7. Okay. The last thing on my agenda is the office party.
8. This brings me to the most unpleasant part of the agenda.

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