Interruptions in Meetings

Two real difficulties in business meetings are knowing when and how to interrupt effectively, and how to handle interruptions.

Listen to the following dialogue from a team meeting where they are discussing a suitable hotel for their next company event. Try to remember which interruption phrase was used in each case.

Did you catch some phrases used to interrupt? Try out the quiz below to check your knowledge:

1.

Maria would like to interrupt Mike at the beginning of the meeting. She says:

 
 
 

2.

But Mike manages to hold off Maria’s interruption in order to continue. He does this using the phrase:

 
 
 

3.

Maria interrupts again, after there has been some confusion about the names of the hotels, but Mike holds off her interruption by saying:

 
 
 

4.

Tina has just been talking about the hotel facilities at the Selection Hotel when Maria interrupts. She’d like to add something to Tina’s information. She says:

 
 
 

5.

But Tina holds off her interruption by asking Maria to wait with:

 
 
 

6.

Maria is a little bit annoyed about the problem with dates and would like to stop Tina this way:

 
 
 

7.

However, Tina has a solution and would like to finish what she was saying. She holds off Maria’s interruption by saying:

 
 
 

8.

Now Mike would like to have a word and says:

 
 
 

Quick summary:

 

 

 

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