Meetings: Agreeing, Disagreeing and Getting a Word In
Join in, disagree politely and decode what colleagues really mean.
Right, it's five past, so shall we make a start?
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Starting and joining in5
- Shall we make a start?The chair's polite way to begin.
- Sorry, can I just come in here?A polite interruption.
- Sorry, you go. / No, no, you goWhen two people start talking at once.
- Sorry, I didn't quite catch thatAsks someone to repeat without embarrassment.
- Just building on what Tom saidLinks your point to someone else's.
Disagreeing politely3
Reading between the lines3
Calls and actions4
Check yourself15 questions
Question 1 of 15
The chair says 'Shall we make a start?' What's happening?
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- Part of Talk's themed British life packs. Talk wrote each phrase with what it really means, when to say it, what not to say instead and one quiz question. A phrase gets a moment only if Talk's spoken videos say it with the same meaning. One review picked each moment, and a second tried to reject it. This pack holds 15 phrases.
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