5 Things to Cover in Weekly Team Meetings (part 1)

Question 1

What in the world?

Answer 1

phrase

Used to emphasize surprise, shock, anger, etc.

_{What in the world happened here?!}

_{What in the world were you thinking?!}

Question 2

Jump right into …

Answer 2

phrasal verb

To get started immediately

_{Well let’s just jump right into it, shall we?}

_{She tends to jump right into new projects.}

Question 3

A rut

Answer 3

noun

A pattern of behavior that has become unproductive and hard to change

_{I’ve been stuck in a rut lately.}

_{It’s all too easy to get in a bad rut if you’re not constantly trying to innovate.}

Question 4

Go through the motions

Answer 4

verbal phrase

To do something without any effort to do it well

_{He is usually just going through the motions during team meetings.}

_{Don’t just go through the motions, try to improve!}

Question 5

Critical

Answer 5

adjective

Extremely important

_{It is critical that you respond to this email immediately.}

_{Nothing critical came up today.}

Question 6

Receptionist

Answer 6

noun

A person who greets and deals with clients and visitors

_{Please tell the receptionist to deal with this.}

_{I couldn’t get hold of him, but I left a message with the receptionist.}

Question 7

Tally

Answer 7

verb

To count or calculate something

_{It’s his job to tally up our monthly expenses.}

_{Please tally these scores.}

Question 8

Sticky note

Answer 8

noun

A slip of notepaper that can be stuck to something

_{I always keep the items on my to-do list on sticky notes.}

_{He lost the sticky note with her number on it…}

Question 9

Mandatory

Answer 9

adjective

Something that has to be done because of a rule

_{It is mandatory for all employees to take a health check.}

_{It’s not mandatory, but we do encourage it.}

Question 10

A point of pride

Answer 10

noun

Something that produces a feeling of self-satisfaction

_{His PhD is a real point of pride for him.}

_{Hitting my weekly goals is a point of pride for me.}

Question 11

Hand down

Answer 11

phrasal verb

To give responsibility to someone younger / less experienced

_{Unfortunately I need to hand down all my responsibilities to you from here on.}

_{He usually hands down all his tasks to his team.}

Question 12

Hit a target

Answer 12

verbal phrase

To reach a goal (usually in terms of numbers / something that can be calculated)

_{I was not able to hit my sales target now for three weeks in a row.}

_{It’s really hard to hit the targets my boss expects of me.}

Question 13

Revert a trend

Answer 13

verbal phrase

To change a trend so that the opposite happens

_{With the decline of the yen the government is trying to revert the current trend.}

_{They couldn’t revert that trend and had to close down.}

Question 14

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