Hello I like to another is out of this podcast for you for your English for your business English for your skills desists then and with me as Richard Henderson how are you I'm fine and always fun when I'm talking to you because it's always a very inspiring conversation here to be with you and just to give us feedback to our listeners and we are doing this in a very say relaxed situation. We are happy cutting anything of our conversation only if maybe the postmodernist regular payroll or the snowing in the background. This is what we will delete better with this trust. Normal conversation with you agree absolutely agree with you, and we are not reading any scripts or anything else. Just exchanging ideas and I think this is what makes this podcast so natural and also so helpful for people last time the last two episodes where about how to improve your skills. If you weren't in front of the group sharing a meeting or presenting something today we want to talk about the other side of the table the other side of the room. If you are a participant and so do you participate in meetings that you are not sharing and where you're not presenting a PowerPoint presentation or something. I will participate in such meetings often regularly is indeed a regular participant in such meetings. What are the most common situations that drive you crazy in such meetings as a participant on I think is the chairperson or the person is presenting on the one hand it's it's very good to turn on your time and be attentive and I contact, but these kind of people that would do it that they are now overturning on the term data over attentive and their air using the content too much. I think in these kind of situations you kind of feel some way not as comfortable as you could be paying. These are kind of situation that come up to management something that that I found in meetings as either the person that is chairing the meeting were doing the presentation is not very well prepared and talking too much about private things that have nothing to do with the topic or the agenda and on the other side. Participants who come late. Participants who interact with questions that have nothing to do with the actual discussion and those who are unable to turn off the tune of the mobile phone so being the participant and being maybe in a situation where you feel not comfortable how what would you suggest to do. Let's say you feel that the presenter is not prepared to is not very skilled on what he's doing and is not that say untrustworthy. You don't believe that it's true what he is telling you or she is telling you what would you react what would your recommend our listeners how to react in such a situation. So speaking for myself, I would try to keep track to listen to what the present is to say kind of get the information that is important for me. Nevertheless, if the presentations really really really bad just have to hope that the presenter will end his or hers presentation. I soon on the other hand, speak of others are speaking of stories for encounters that I have witnessed myself there people who came of it as you have mentioned in your question before their people kind of get active when they feel the presenter is not well prepared. That will just start to ask questions kind of phone make the presenter more control in his or her statements, and further, there are people who cannot search for confrontation. For example, if you have a presentation where you use figures and you have to quote after quote somebody and then all of a sudden you you make a statement, a bold statement, very bold statement. The people telephone feel attacked personally and then will just challenge you with questions so they wouldn't just ask questions. What did you say here. It would frame the question in a way to challenge what you said and I am 90s, participants yet to look out for them down every presentation and I will went once I get the chance to ask a confrontational question that were asked him yet. So these are the kind of participants and then also the participants will just just got to just take this 30 minutes of the business meeting as a as a break and look take the phone to that mobile phone is an excellent next use of new gossip. How would you react to to another participant that is really disturbing the meeting. I mean, there always these people who have to tell everybody that they are the most competent are the most important person in the whole room. How would you if the if the presenter is not able to cope with this person I would you as a participant, react to such interactions and I would I would give the presenter saying that that I have that have seen the person who's constantly interrupting an outcome of one to put correlation with the presenter to stop this person that is constantly interrupting and a sense of making the present. Understand that while I'm interrupting his presentation. I just want to help the person is presenting so person A's interrupting then me. I as Richard want to stop present a YM stop stop trying to stop present and also interrupting presented presentation. That is something that people always have in mind that two wrongs don't make a right so I can have first will signal to the presenter. Okay I want to help you. I'm not interrupting anything boldly speak to the interrupt and say hello. We are in a business meeting here. Could you please be attentive and listen you could use stronger was just given mind that it's a business meeting setting and don't get rude to turn Jews uncollectible words just if you want to use business card. You can always business code but kind of make the presenter knowing that you want to help, and then stopped interruption of their interrupt what business code can explain this phrase to our listeners. So I believe everybody that has worked in the office knows that certain words mean. Have a have a stronger meaning. At the end. So even though they are quite polite and surface they just mean this is that mean something strong is for example that's often using written works of the emails as I have written to you before that actually means County rate, I realized I was very surprised to hear though I was really annoyed. Okay now the final final question for this episode. Now some of our listeners don't feel that self-confident when they have to participate in a meeting that is completely in English and what would you suggest if you want to ask a question but you you not knowing the words you don't know how to explain how to formulate the question if you just have a lack of vocabulary and you're not needing sure if your grammar is correct, etc. and you don't want to. Yeah, you don't want to make people laugh about your English you you probably nobody will laugh, but you have the impression if I ask this question. Everybody in the room knows that my English is not very good but still you want to have the answer, what would you suggest if people so I think with confidence is always the same. You have to remember that you are not the smartest in the room but he also loved Thomas he you have to remember that your English is not the best of every positive participant in room is not the worst of every participant in the room after betting step before you have to think to yourself, do I really need this information and most of the times. If you want to ask the question you really need that information, you want to know you want to understand so that case, you have to just be authentic authentic authentic authentic and just realize that if even make mistakes just phrase the question of frame the question certain way in such a way that the person you're asking for more less understand your question. Don't think about how other people were rickety because as you have already established myself. You are not the dumbest of the room you are not the most competent room you're not doing your English is not the worst in room and it's not. It's not the best guess someone in the middle. So when you are somewhere in the middle you're perfectly perfectly fine to ask a question just be authentic. Even if you make mistakes. These mistakes will happen next time. Just prepay a question what the professor but don't be afraid because you your English is not perfect okay perfect thank you very much for sharing your ideas, but this time, and you think you two usually is not. And if you've got any questions or if you need any help if you want to have a training using the actual corporate situation to improve your skills for your business just can't think of at info@speed learning.Academy and we will let you know for how to support you and Richard and I are happy to help you Richard, thank you very much looking forward to talking to you next week. Until then, have a great time. Thanks. By