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Oct 2024
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248. Chair Meetings Confidently: Busines...

Anna Connelly, Anna Connelly.
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Do you worry thinking about English meetings you have to chair? You want it to go well but you're overthinking everything - what phrases you need to use. What's the best way to welcome people? How to manage if people talk for too long? How to summarise at the end? Let me help take some of the stress off your plate. 

In today's episode I am going to train you on 17 phrases you can use in a special lesson preview from my soon to be re-opened Confidence Booster Toolkit. 220+ lessons for senior managers to build their confidence learning natural and advanced business phrases on autopilot in 5 minutes a day. 

You don't need to reinvent the wheel everytime you have meetings. Learn these phrases on autopilot and you can reduce your stress and worry and focus your energy elsewhere.

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