Vocabulary【Meeting Vocabulary】
meeting agenda
A meeting agenda is a list of items that are discussed during a meeting.
To have a well-organized meeting, you should prioritize the agenda items.
Here's a print-out of the agenda for the meeting.
Have you all received a copy of the meeting agenda?
meeting minutes
Meeting minutes are a set of notes that record decisions made during a meeting.
After a meeting, you can distribute the meeting minutes to remind people of what was discussed.
Here are the minutes from our meeting on Friday.
Please find the minutes of today's meeting in the attached file.
action plan
An action plan lists the steps to take after a decision has been made in a meeting.
Without a clear action plan, people may not know what to do next.
They revised the action plan to fit the changing needs of the company.
All attendees are required to follow up on the action plan.
consensus
A consensus is an opinion that all members of a group agree with.
If attendees of a meeting don't share a common goal, they probably won't reach a consensus.
We managed to reach a consensus on the budget plan.
We were unable to reach a consensus about the marketing strategy.
ballot
A ballot is a system of secret voting.
If there's an area of disagreement during a meeting, people can put it to the ballot.
They failed to achieve consensus, so they put the decision to the ballot.
At the end of the meeting, they held a ballot to decide the issue.
All attendees cast their ballot in secret.
cast a/your ballot: 匿名投票
Question
- Why is a clear action plan important?
> It helps people implement a decision.
