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English for
Meetings
Participants collect specific phrases that help them to lead and
participate in English language meetings.
Speaking
Practice
Short
practice activities (“mini-meetings”) allow the participants to
practice the language they have been given.
Leading
Practice
Each
participant chooses a work-related or business topic, plans an
agenda for that topic, and facilitates a meeting using that
agenda.
This activity is captured as a video file and either copied to
the participant's notebook computer or burned onto a DVD to take
away after the course. |
Balancing Advocacy and Inquiry
There is a tendency
among western business people to concentrate on
advocating (befürworten) their own ideas and solutions.
This
concept
was developed at M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in the
USA.
This
strategy shows how to discover greater areas of possible solutions by
becoming more open to feedback about one’s own ideas and becoming more
open to the ideas of others.
Finally, it can help to minimize western-style
assertive behavior which would otherwise conflict with many
other cultural styles. |
Six Thinking
Hats
This is a
strategy for dealing with complex or controversial topics during
group discussions.
It is helpful for eliminating pointless
repetition and preventing more powerful members from dominating
less powerful members.
It also saves creative ideas that
otherwise get destroyed by negative thinking before they can be
fully developed. |