{"id":6,"date":"2017-09-30T12:40:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T12:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.orochinagi.com\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2024-01-15T14:55:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T14:55:14","slug":"meetings-opening","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/meetings\/meetings-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Meetings : opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some of these phrases are similar to the ones in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orochinagi.com\/english\/business\/presentations\/\">presentations<\/a> so check that page for variations.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: checking the room, small talk and coffee is <strong>before<\/strong> the actual start.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The order should be :<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Starting<\/li>\n<li>Welcoming<\/li>\n<li>Apologies<\/li>\n<li>Objective<\/li>\n<li>Agenda<\/li>\n<li>Timing<\/li>\n<li>Modifications<\/li>\n<li>Moving<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at the different points in more detail, but in a different order which is easier to follow and study:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Starting<\/li>\n<li>Welcoming<\/li>\n<li>Apologies<\/li>\n<li>Objective<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1. Starting<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s get down to business. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OK, shall we make a start?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right, let\u2019s begin\/ start\/ go !<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2. Welcoming and introducing <\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Welcome, everybody. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019d like to start by welcoming everybody. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m happy to see everyone!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks for attending\/ \u00a0being here\/ on time<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Firstly, I\u2019d like to introduce\u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s go around the table and introduce ourselves!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shall we do a round table?*<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3. Apologies for absence <\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m afraid that\u2026 cannot be with us today because\u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\/I have (received) apologies (for absence) from\u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Xxx sends his\/her apologies <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">unfortunately, xxx is missing today\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I would like to offer my apologies for \u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sadly, it\u2019s not possible for Jane to attend today\u2026<\/p>\n<h1>4. Objective<\/h1>\n<p>Our objective\/aim\/goal today is to\u2026<br \/>\nToday\u2019s objective is to\u2026.<br \/>\nWe have x objectives&#8230;<br \/>\nI\u2019ve called this meeting to look at the question of\u2026<br \/>\nWe need to cover x &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Weak: discuss, talk about, look at<\/p>\n<p>Dynamic: decide, establish, demonstrate, select, define<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orochinagi.com\/english\/meetings\/opening-a-meeting-part-2\/\">Go on to part 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of these phrases are similar to the ones in presentations so check that page for variations. Note: checking the room, small talk and coffee is before the actual start. The order should be : Starting Welcoming Apologies Objective Agenda Timing Modifications Moving Let&#8217;s look at the different points in more detail, but in a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/meetings\/meetings-opening\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meetings : opening&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":67,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2105,"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/2105"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}