How to Start a Meeting

So if you've got a very formal structure and somebody kept minutes or the notes from the last meeting well it's always a good place to start. You're making everybody aware that the meeting won't go on longer than is absolutely necessary but we have a lot to get through. The sooner we start the sooner the meeting will end okay so let me just go over that againso you have your small talk you welcome the people thereYou thank them for coming or for phoning in or joining in in the conference call. Then you can use phrases like okay let's get startedEverybody's here let's begin let's kick off why don't we start  and then we'll move on to