English Phrases for Professional Meetings and Project Updates

Vocabulary and essential phrasal verbs for giving professional status updates and participating effectively in online meetings.

To catch up on

To inform someone or to be informed about what they missed, often used when someone was not present for an earlier conversation or meeting.

To fill in

To provide someone with missing details or background information, especially when adding helpful context like budget changes.

To bring up

To introduce a topic for discussion when you want to shift attention to something new or important.

To go over

To review or analyze something, often in detail and as a group.

To carry on with

To continue something you have already started.

To check-in on

To monitor something or briefly ask about progress, showing support without sounding like micromanagement.

To follow-up on

To take further action about something that was previously discussed or assigned.

To keep up with

To maintain pace with something that is moving quickly or changing.

To move forward with

To progress into the next stage of a project or process.

To work on

To be actively engaged in something.

To run into

To unexpectedly encounter a problem or obstacle.

To hold up

To delay or slow down progress by placing focus on the obstacle rather than the person giving the update.

To push back

To delay or postpone something to a later date.

To look into

To investigate or examine something further.

To sort out

To fix or resolve a problem in a satisfactory way.

To wrap up

To bring something to a close or finish it completely.

To hand over

To transfer responsibility or give something to someone else.

To follow through on

To complete something that was promised or committed to.

To get back to

To return with more information or an answer later.

To sign off on

To give formal approval.

To put together

To create or compile something, often using different pieces of information.

To set up

To arrange or organize something, such as recurring meetings.

Are we good to go?

A meeting opening phrase used to ask if everyone is present and ready to start.

Kick off

An informal term meaning to start or begin a meeting.

Get the ball rolling

A metaphor derived from football used to mean starting a meeting or getting an activity underway.

Jump in / Butt in

Informal expressions (common in American English) used when interrupting someone during a meeting to make a point or ask a question.

Pencil in

To make a diary entry or schedule a tentative future meeting.

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