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职场英语：A proposal is a type of writing which maps out your plans and vision in order to gain support for your plan.

On the job skills

• meeting
  • formal
    • Good morning/afternoon
    • I would like to...;Welcome to...;It is pleasure to
    • serious;careful
  • informal
    • OK/Right
    • casual;relax
• meeting memo
  • A basic memorandum is one of the easiest and most efficient ways to get information out to your employees or colleagues about an upcoming meeting.
  • The first paragraph covers all pertinent information about the meeting. The second paragraph provides specific guidance about required advance reading or tasks. The last paragraph requests invitees to respond.
• meeting agenda
  • Meeting agenda is a meeting plan.
  • The purpose is to let participants know what the meeting is about and what is expected from them.
  • It includes meeting date；meeting start time；meeting end time；meeting location；meeting purpose；list of participants (including guests)；list of meeting reference documents (if applicable).
• meeting minutes
  • The official written record of a meeting.
  • In writing minutes, be clear, comprehensive, objective, and diplomatic. Do not interpret what happened,simply report it. Do not record emotional exchanges between participants. Final form as the meeting progresses. Focus on results and agreed on actions. Highly summarized, don't record detailed input. Use formal words and past tense to describe what took place.
• report and proposal
  • Business reports are a standard part of any business professional's kit.
  • A proposal is a type of writing which maps out your plans and vision in order to gain support for your plan.
• chairing a meeting
  • Before the meeting
    • Setting the objectives of the meeting
    • Setting the agenda
    • Informing the participants of the date, place, time, agenda and obiectives of the meeting
    • Preparing all the files that need to be distributed to the attendees
  • During the meeting
    • Presenting the purpose of the meeting
    • Focusing on the main issues, giving every attendee a chance to contribute
    • Making summary at the end of the meeting
  • After the meeting
    • Writing minutes of the meeting
• chart description
  • type
    • table、chart、diagram、graph、column chart/bar chart、pie graph、treediagram
  • description
    • show、 describe、illustrate、 can be seen from、 clear、 apparent、 reveal、 represent
      • Upward movement
        • increase; rise; go up; climb;grow; pick up; improve; recover....
      • Downward movement
        • decrease; fall; go down; drop; decline; reduce; slide...
      • Fluctuation
        • fluctuate; rebound(回升); undulate(起伏波动); wave...
    • rapid/rapidly 迅速的，飞快的，险峻的 dramatic/dramatically 戏剧性的，生动的 significant/significantly 有意义的，重大的，重要的 sharp/sharply 锐利的，明显的，急剧的 steep/steeply 急剧升降的 steady/steadily 稳固的，坚定不移的 gradual/gradually 渐进的，逐渐的 slow/slowly缓慢的，不活跃的 slight/slightly 稍微的，略微地 stable/stably 稳定的
  • content
    • figure、statistie、 number、percentage、proportion
• soft skills
  • Soft skills relate to the way a person relates to and interacts with other people and the society.
• hard skills
  • Hard skills are teachable abilities or skill sets that are easy to quantify.
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