Happy Monday, Reader! AI avatars could soon take over meeting-related tasks that we don’t want to do—but for now, we’ve got to handle it ourselves.

Today you will learn how to:

• use transition phrases to guide discussions

• improve your listening skills for technical meetings

And you can test your understanding of today’s lesson with a quick quiz.

VOCABULARY

Transition Phrases for Meetings

Want to sound less awkward and more professional when guiding or taking part in discussions? Try these 5 phrases.

1. move on to → shift from one topic to the next

2. in terms of → focus on a specific point of the discussion

3. how about → suggest an idea and invite input from others

4. on that note → connect ideas

5. to elaborate on → provide more detail about a previous point 

Example

Thanks everyone for your updates so far. Let’s move on to talking about timelines. In terms of our progress, we’re on track to finish by Friday. How about we set up a meeting on Thursday to do a final check of the product? Oh, and on that note, Joe—I got your message about your idea to share daily status reports. Would you like to elaborate on that for the rest of the team?

TECH

Retrospective Meetings

Retrospective meetings occur at the end of a project for a development team. They are used to reflect on what went well, what didn’t go well, and how processes can be improved going forwards.

how about, moving on to, in terms of

Listen to the audio - which phrase from the list above does the reader use to….

1. Shift between talking about ‘what went well’ and ‘what needs improving’

2. Suggest the idea of having more frequent and thorough refinement sessions

3. Bring focus to the topic of unit testing

Answers

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