Meetings: Closing

What should we do to finish the meeting?

 

Ending the meeting

  • Questions?
  • Summarise / Conclude
  • give thanks
  • organise next meeting
  • Goodbye

Questions

Does anyone have any questions?

Any questions?

Would anyone like to ask a question?

 

Summarising

So we covered…

We talked about…

The points today were…

In summary, …

What is the difference between summarising and concluding?

Concluding

So we will…

So we have decided to…

What I understand is, we will…

From what I understand, we will

From my understanding,

To conclude…

In conclusion…

Give thanks

Thanks for listening

Thanks for attending

Thank you so much for being here

Thanks to John for organising the buffet

I would like to thank

All my thanks to Sarah

I am grateful for the food / to Jack for the presentation

I would like to give my thanks to / for

 

Organising

Shall we meet on ….

Let’s reconvene on…

Let’s meet again on..

Goodbye

I look forward to seeing you …

See you next …

Best wishes for …

Hope you have a nice/good…

Thank you.