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How to take meeting minutes like a professional

BMT Office Administration

Meeting minutes are a staple of all Board meetings, and many internal company meetings, as they serve as an official written record of a meeting to aid in future decision-making and fill in employees who couldn’t attend. Yet, if you’ve never written meeting minutes before, it may seem like an intimidating process.

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Say Goodbye To Calendar Tetris And Say Hello To Strategic Calendar Planning

Melissa Peoples

Expected Outcome | Next Steps: What is the desired outcome or what needs to happen after this meeting? Agenda: If the meeting is over 30 minutes, I require a detailed agenda. Pre-read: Is there a pre-read to the meeting? Facilitator: Who is facilitating the meeting?

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5 Things Every Meeting Management Guru Does

Melissa Peoples

Use Centralized Collaboration Tools Managing meeting agendas, invites, content, decks, meeting minutes and tracking actionable items can overwhelm the most seasoned professional. We are 5 minutes over our scheduled time, would you like to give a 1-minute takeaway before we move on?

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How to take better notes with Speed Writing

BMT Office Administration

Some specific uses of speed writing include: When taking meeting minutes at a staff or board meeting. It can help to look at the agenda before a meeting that you will be attending or taking minutes for beforehand, and decide on what abbreviations you’ll use for the major terms that will be discussed.

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Effective Committee meeting management

Practically Perfect PA

The agenda. The Committee chair will normally finalise the meeting’s agenda but you can certainly help by drafting the initial version. Every agenda should have the following details: The name of the Committee meeting. The members that are attending the meeting. The timing of meetings.

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Effective Committee meeting management

Practically Perfect PA

The agenda. The Committee chair will normally finalise the meeting’s agenda but you can certainly help by drafting the initial version. Every agenda should have the following details: The name of the Committee meeting. The members that are attending the meeting. The timing of meetings.

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A Meeting With Me

Productivityist

I decided that a 30 minute meeting with myself every week would work wonders for me. I’d create an agenda and run my meeting with that agenda in mind. I’d take notes and assemble meetings minutes from those notes. I simply had an agenda and created minutes afterward. And you know what?

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