Meetings auf Englisch (Language of Meetings)

Meetings haben in allen Sprachen den gleichen Aufbau mit 3 klaren Teilen:

1. Eröffnung des Meetings mit Begrüßung der Teilnehmer, Darstellung des Themas / der Themen und Vorstellung / Erläuterung der Agenda.

2. Während des Meetings hat die leitende Person (Chairperson) die Aufgabe, das Meeting zu moderieren und zu lenken, indem er / sie beispielsweise das Vorgehen (Regeln des Meetings), die Einhaltung der Agenda und des Zeitplans gewährleistet.

3. Die Beendigung des Meetings mit einer Zusammenfassung der behandelten Punkte, Hinweisen auf das Protokoll und ggf. auf das nächste Meeting und - last, but  – dem Dank an die Teilnehmer.

1. Ein Meeting eröffnen / “Opening a meeting”

Die Teilnehmer
begrüßen

  • Hello, everyone. Thank you for coming today.
  • Thank you all for coming at such short notice.
  • I really appreciate you all for attending today.
  • Good morning. If/ Since everyone is here, we should get started / let’s start the meeting.
  • Good afternoon. It looks like everyone's here, so let's get started.
  • I think we will (we’ll) begin now.
  • First I would (I’d) like to welcome you all.
  • We have a lot to cover today, so we really should begin.
Unbekannte Teilnehmer
einführen
  • I would (I’d) like to take a moment to introduce our new project leader Peter.
  • Peter, would you like to stand up and introduce yourself?
  • It’s a pleasure to welcome Peggy, our new team assistant.
  • Please join me in welcoming Tom, our new sales assistant.
  • I know most of you, but there are some new faces.
Abwesende Teilnehmer
entschuldigen
  • Unfortunately, Peter cannot join us / be here today, because of an important client request.
  • I have (I’ve) received apologies for the absence of Peter, who is in Cologne with a client.
Anlass / Grund des
Meetings nennen und
die Agenda vorstellen / erläutern
  • Have you all received a copy of the agenda
  • We are here today to discuss the project “Future”.
  • I have (I’ve) called this meeting to talk about the new structure.
  • I have (I’ve) called this meeting in order to discuss the new sales strategy.
  • We are here today to review last month’s sales figures.
  • Following our agenda for today we will be mainly talking about the future structure of our sales force.
  • First we will discuss …
  • After that we’ll discuss …
  • Next, we’ll focus on …, followed by …
    And finally, …

2. Diskussion der Agenda / „Discussing the agenda“

Vorgehen erklären
  • I suggest we go round the table first.
  • We will hear / get a short report on each point first, followed by a discussion round the table.
Zeitplan beachten
  • I’m afraid we are running out of time, so let’s move on.
  • We are (We’re) running behind the schedule, so we have to skip the next item. 
  • We only have fifteen minutes remaining and there are a lot of topics left to cover.
  • I think we have (we’ve) spent enough time on this item, so we will leave it for now.
  • If we don’t move to the next item, we will (we’ll) miss our lunch.


3. Ein Meeting beenden / „Closing a meeting“
Zusammenfassung, Protokoll,
Nächstes Meeting,
Dank an
die Teilnehmer
  • To sum up, we have (we’ve) agreed about that our turnover could be better and we have discussed solutions.
  • Right, it looks as though we have (we've) covered the main items / everything on the list.
  • If no one has anything else to add, then I think we'll wrap this up.
  • I guess that will be all for today.
  • So, our monthly meeting is finished and we will (we’ll) see everyone on the first of next month.
  • Can we fix the next meeting, please?
  • Thank you all for attending / coming.
  • The minutes from today’s meeting will be posted as of
    Tuesday afternoon.