Language of Meetings. Tip #1: Beginning a Meeting
To start the meeting, the meeting leader may use one of these phrases:
Hello, everyone. Thank you for coming today.
Since everyone is here, let’s get started.
First, I’d like to welcome you all.
If there are new people in the meeting, or people from different departments who might not know each other, the chairperson may introduce them:
I’d like to take a moment to introduce… [name + description]
I’d like to take a moment to introduce Carla, from the public relations department.
Finally, it’s good to state the specific topic or objective (цель) of the meeting, in order to focus the discussion:
As you can see from the agenda (план действий), we’ll be talking about… [topic].
