NATIONAL LEARNING SERVICE SENA- TECHNOLOGY IN

LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT

ACTIVICTY 4 EVIDENCE 2: “BUSINESS MEETING

WORKSHOP”

APPRENTICE: DENNYS YUREIMA ORTEGA GOMEZ

CARLOS ALBERTO RAMIREZ
CUBIDES
FILE: 1749897

DECEMBER 13, 2018

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Evidence 2: “Business meeting workshop”….3,4,5,6,7,8,9

Bibliography……………………………………………………..10

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 ACTIVICTY 4 EVIDENCE 2: “BUSINESS MEETING
WORKSHOP”

Business meeting workshop

In a working setting, to be able to speak in a second language, English

in particular, is a must. It allows to manage technical processes and
opens up new business opportunities. This is the reason why, this time,
the training and complementary material focuses on meetings; and it
gives, not only some important meeting expressions, but some
meaningful tips on pronunciation. Now, it's time for you to evidence
your learning throughout this workshop.

1. READ THE FOLLOWING VERBS. THEN, WRITE ITS PAST

FORM:

BEGIN Began JOIN joined

CLOSE closed MOVE moved
COMPLETE completed PRESENT presented
COVER Covered RECEIVE received
DELIVER delivered STATE stated
DEVELOP developed VALUE valued
DISCUSS discussed IS Was/were

2. THE FOLLOWING DIALOGUE. THEN, FILL IN THE GAPS

USING THE VERBS ON THE PREVIOUS ACTIVITY.

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 BUSINESS MEETING DIALOGUE

Taken and adapted from: thoughtco.com

 INTRODUCTIONS

Begin the meeting with introductions with special attention paid to

newcomers.

Meeting Chairman: If we are all here, let's get started. First of all, I'd
like you to please join me in welcoming Jack Peterson, our
Southwest Area Sales Vice President.

Jack Peterson: Thank you for having me, I'm looking forward to
today's meeting.

Meeting Chairman: I'd also like to introduce Margaret Simmons who

recently JOINED our team.

 REVIEWING PAST BUSINESS

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 It's a good idea to review past business shortly before moving on to
the main topic of discussion.

Meeting Chairman: We're here today to discuss ways of improving

sales in rural market areas. First, let's go over the report from the last
meeting which was on June 24th. Right, Tom, over to you.

Alex Young: Thank you Mark. Let me just summarize the main points
of the last meeting. We BEGAN the meeting by approving the changes
in our sales reporting system DISCUSSED on May 30th. After briefly
revising the changes that will take place, we MOVED on to a
brainstorming session concerning after customer support
improvements.You'll find a copy of the main ideas DEVELOPED and in
DISCUSSED these sessions inthe photocopies in front of you. The
meeting DECLARED CLOSED at 11.30

 BEGINNING THE MEETING

Make sure that everyone has an agenda of the meeting and stick to it.

Refert o the a g e n da   f r om time to
t im e   d u r in g   t h e   m e e t i n g   t o   k ee p t h e   d i s c u s s io n o n t r a c k .

Meeting Chairman:Thank you Tom. So, if there is nothing else we

need to discuss, let's move on totoday's agenda. Have you all
RECEIVED a copy of today's agenda? If you don't mind, I'd like toskip
item 1 and move on to item 2: Sales improvement in rural market
areas. Jack has kindly agreed togive us a report on this matter. Jack?

 DISCUSSING ITEMS

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Discuss items on the agenda making sure to
paraphrase a n d   c l a r i f y   a s   y o u m o v e   t hr o u gh
t h e   m e e t in g .
C h r i s   M o r g a n : Before I begin the report, I'd like to get some ideas
from you all. How do you feel aboutrural sales in your sales districts? I
suggest we go round the table first to get all of your input.
Alex Young:In my opinion, we have been focusing too much on urban
customers and their needs. Theway I see things, we need to return to
our rural base by developing an advertising campaign to focus ontheir
particular needs.
 Anne Stevenson: I'm afraid I can't agree with you. I think rural
customers want to feel as important asour customers living in cities. I
suggest we give our rural sales teams more help with advanced
customerinformation reporting.
 Alex Young:Excuse me, I didn't catch that. Could you repeat that,
please?
 Anne Stevenson:I just stated that we need to give our rural sales
teams better customer informationreporting.
C h r i s   M o r g a n : I don't quite follow you. What exactly do you
mean?
Anne Stevenson:Well, we provide our city sales staff with database
information on all of our largerclients. We should be providing the same
sort of knowledge on our rural customers to our sales staffthere.
C h r i s   M o r g a n : Would you like to add anything, Tom?
Alex Young:I must admit I never thought about rural sales that way
before.
C h r i s   M o r g a n : Well, let me begin with this Power Point
presentation (Chris presents his report). As youcan see, we are
developing new methods to reach out to our rural customers.
Anne Stevenson:I suggest we break up into groups and discuss the
ideas we've seen PRESENTED

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  FINISHING THE MEETING

Close the meeting by summarizing what's been discussed and

scheduling thenext meeting.
Meeting Chairman: Unfortunately, we're running short of time. We'll
have to leave that to another time

Jack Peterson:Before we close, let me just summarize the main points:

-Rural customers need special help to feel more VALUED

-Our sales teams need more accurate information on our customers
.-A survey will be COMPLETED to collect data on spending habits in
these areas.
-The results of this survey will be DELIVERED to our sales teams.

 Meeting Chairman:Thank you very much Jack. Right, it looks as

though we've COVERED
 themain items Is there any other business?
 
Alex Young:Can we fix the next meeting, please?
 
Meeting Chairman:Good idea Donald. How does Friday in two weeks
time sound to everyone? Let'smeet at the same time, 9 o'clock. Is that
OK for everyone? Excellent. I'd like to thank Chris for coming toour
meeting today. The meeting is CLOSED

3. THE PREVIOUS DIALOGUE DOESN'T INCLUDE GREETINGS

AT THE BEGINNING. READ THE DIALOGUE AGAING AND
WRITE THE MOST APPROPRIATE GREETING TO START
THE MEETING

 Right, everyone has arrived now, so let´s get started. 

 Bien, todo el mundo ha llegado, así que podemos comenzar.

 If we are all here, let´s start the meeting.

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  Si estamos todos aquí, comencemos la reunión

  Now that everyone is here, shall we begin?

 Ahora que estámos todos aquí, ¿empezamos?

 
 Shall we get down to business?
 ¿Nos ponemos manos a la obra? / ¿Hablamos de negocios?

 Well, since every is here, we should get started.

 Bueno, ya que todo el mundo está aquí, deberíamos estar
empezando.

 Okay, we have a lot to cover today, so we really should get

started.
 Bien, tenemos mucho que hacer hoy, así que deberíamos de
verdad estar empezando.
 
 Hello everyone. Thank you for coming today.
 Hola a todo el mundo. Gracias por venir hoy.

 Okay, let´s begin. Firstly, I´d like to welcome you all

 Bien, empecemos. En primer lugar me gustaría dar la bienvenida
a todos.
 Thank you all for coming at such short notice.
 Gracias a todos por venir en tan corto espacio de tiempo

 I really appreciate your attendance to this meeting.

 Aprecio mucho vuestra asistencia a esta reunión.

 For those of you who don´t know me yet, I am.

 Para aquellos que todavía no me conozcan, Soy.

 Please join me in welcoming.

 Por favor, acompáñenme en dar la bienvenida.

 I´d like to extend a warm welcome to

 Me gustaría extender esta calurosa bienvenida a

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 We are pleased to welcome
 Estamos encantados de dar la bienvenida

 Firstly, I´d like to introduce

 En primer lugar, me gustaría presentar

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 Bibliography

The material for the realization of this work was given from the
following pages of the national service of learning Sena:

 https://senaintro.blackboard.com/bbcswebdav/pid-106693766-dt-
content-rid-289288480_4-
3/institution/SENA/Ventas/822202/Contenido/DocArtic/Evidencia
_2_Business_meeting_workshop_V2.pdf?version=3

 https://senaintro.blackboard.com/bbcswebdav/pid-106693766-dt-
content-rid-289288654_4-
3/institution/SENA/Ventas/822202/Contenido/DocArtic/IE_Eviden
cia_2_BUSINESS_MEETING_V2.pdf?version=3

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