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town hall style meetings

English translation: Public meeting

15:02 Aug 14, 2009
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Investment / Securities
English term or phrase: town hall style meetings
He says he learned from watching Welch wrestle over new processes he installed like GE's patented Work-Out,which uses cross-functional company teams and town hall style meetings to find ways to take bureaucracy out of the company through means like less meetings and fewer approval levels on decision-making that add no value.
Shirley Fan
Local time: 08:36
Selected answer:Public meeting
Explanation:
A town-hall meeting is a meeting where the public is welcome and everyone is allowed to have a say or ask questions. They are often held by politicians or by city governments if there is an issue on which they want the citizens' opinion.

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Note added at 13 mins (2009-08-14 15:15:21 GMT)
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In your context it is a meeting where everyone in the company is allowed to attend and give input.
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Tina Vonhof (X)
Canada
Local time: 18:36
Grading comment
thanks
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4 +5Public meeting
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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
Public meeting


Explanation:
A town-hall meeting is a meeting where the public is welcome and everyone is allowed to have a say or ask questions. They are often held by politicians or by city governments if there is an issue on which they want the citizens' opinion.

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Note added at 13 mins (2009-08-14 15:15:21 GMT)
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In your context it is a meeting where everyone in the company is allowed to attend and give input.


    Reference: http://ncteapartyrevolution.com/blog1.php?p=149&more=1&c=1&t...
Tina Vonhof (X)
Canada
Local time: 18:36
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
thanks

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agree  Judith Hehir
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