Essential English vocabulary & helpful phrases for the workplace

🧑🏽‍💼 Business English: Meetings

I would like to begin by introducing myself

I want everyone in the meeting to say who you are

Let’s take a moment to introduce ourselves

I want everyone in the meeting to say who you are, and give this information in order of who is sitting around the table in the meeting room (either clockwise or anticlockwise)

Let's go around the table and introduce ourselves

We are here today to decide on/agree on, etc

After this topic what we will talk about next

We will talk about a particular thing on the agenda

We will think about/ discuss a particular thing on the agenda

If we have time, we will talk about something else

If there’s enough time, we will also go through…

After all the other points on the agenda, we will talk about something else

I would like to inform everyone about the project’s progress

If nobody has anything else to share, let’s move on to…

We are going off topic. Can we return to…?

We're wasting time talking about the wrong thing

I’m afraid we're running out of time, so can we go back to… (the matter in hand)?

We have gone off-topic, so can we return to the topic on the agenda, and maybe discuss this other thing later?

Can we continue this discussion later and go back to (the other matter)?

I would like to hand it over to John, who will share more about (the project/ topic/ matter)

This is what we talked about/ agreed in the meeting

Before we finish, let’s go over everything we talked about

These are the agreed action points of the meeting

I think we've done everything we were supposed to and we can finish now

That just about covers everything for today

If there’s nothing more to discuss, we can finish for today

I suggest we start with Jane updating us on…