Fit for English-speaking meetings

It starts before the meeting: small talk

• Which topics are suitable for small talk? What should you avoid?
• Guide to successful small talk.
• Confident handling of small talk.

Listening Skills

• Listening and understanding correctly, active listening skills.
• Tips for improving your listening comprehension.
• Strategies: What to do if you don't understand something? Ask specific questions.

Behavior and wording in the meeting

• Preparation: What do you look out for as a participant before the meeting?
• Introduce yourself - professionally and technically.
• Expressing and justifying opinions - politely and diplomatically.
• Communicate approval or rejection clearly.
• Interrupting politely - how can this be done constructively?
• React appropriately when others interrupt you.
• Use important expressions for meetings.
• Closing a meeting: What is important afterwards?
• Recognize differences between formal and informal meetings.

Intercultural meetings

• Seizing opportunities through cultural diversity.
• Pay attention to the special features of intercultural meetings.
• Tips for talking to non-native speakers in English.