English for Meetings and Calls, for your team.

They follow most of the meeting. The part they miss is the part that matters.

Your people do their work well, and more and more of it happens in English: the weekly call with head office, the project update with a partner, the client who joins on video from another time zone. They follow most of it. Then someone speaks fast, or with an accent they aren't used to, or three people talk at once, and the key sentence goes by. They have a point to make, and the moment passes while they build the sentence. So they stay quiet, agree to things they only half understood, and ask a colleague afterwards what was decided.

This is the need we meet most often in teams, and it's a speaking and listening problem, not a vocabulary list. The workshop works on exactly that: following fast speakers, whether English is their first language or not, and asking to clarify without losing face; taking the turn and interrupting politely; agreeing and disagreeing in the right register; keeping a video call on track when the audio fails; and saying out loud what was decided and who does what. From the second session on, the simulated meetings run on the team's own agendas, projects and clients.

What the team works on

Six things, in the order a meeting follows. The dossier has the programme session by session; here is the map.

• Openings and small talk. The first five minutes of a call: introductions, small talk that builds the relationship, and setting the agenda so everyone knows why they're there.
• Following and clarifying. Understanding people who speak fast, with different accents, or all at once. Asking for repetition without embarrassment, and checking you've understood before you agree to anything.
• Taking the turn. Getting into the conversation at the right moment, interrupting politely, holding the floor until your point is made, and handing it back.
• Agreeing and disagreeing. Saying what you think with the right strength. Disagreeing without causing offence, and hearing the polite no in what others say: "That could be tricky" rarely means yes.
• Video calls. Audio that drops, a delay that cuts sentences in half, cameras off, people talking over each other: the phrases that keep a call on track when the technology doesn't.
• Summaries and next steps. Saying out loud what was decided, who does what and by when, so everyone leaves the meeting with the same understanding.

The Full format adds four sessions on running the meeting: chairing and keeping time, difficult moments and difficult participants, calls with clients and suppliers, and a final meeting where each participant takes the chair, with detailed feedback.

How the group works

Levels

Both formats run at two levels, A2+ / B1 and B1+ / B2, with the same structure and material adapted to the level: the format is about depth and time, not level. Some difference in level inside a group is normal and works well. A substantial gap doesn't: in that case we split the team into two smaller groups, or we suggest the right level for each person. Marcus looks at this with you in the first call. There is no test before the call.

One company, or several

Most groups come from one company. They don't have to. If you want to take the workshop with colleagues from other companies, or with professionals you know, you can: the group needs 3 to 6 people with a similar level, and each company, or each participant, receives their own invoice. We check the details together in the call.

If someone misses a session

The session goes ahead for the others; the materials and the task are in MyMEI for whoever was absent. The tutor picks the person up in the next session. We don't repeat sessions for one participant.

Reports and certificate

The company receives regular reports: attendance, how the course is going, and each participant's progress. Everyone knows this before the first session. At the end, each participant receives an MEI certificate with the programme completed, which they can add to their LinkedIn profile.

Invoice and payment

A regular company invoice, paid in advance. The price is for the whole workshop, with no extras: materials, MyMEI, reports and certificates are included.

After the workshop

Many teams continue. Following a meeting in English rests on General English: listening at normal speed, the tenses, the words of every day. A workshop shows where the base needs work. For teams that want to keep going, there is General & Business English, month by month, with the same tutor.

One person, or two

Under 3 people, the same programme runs as individual lessons at €35 per lesson, or as paired lessons with a colleague at €24 per person, per lesson. Same tutor, same weekly slot, or slots, and the programme adapted to one or two people.