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Ask the Admin: Meeting Minutes Retention

Administrative Arts

You don’t indicate if you are talking about Board minutes or membership meeting minutes. According to every reference I can find for document retention, Board minutes should be kept permanently. I didn’t find any specific references to membership meeting minutes in any of the research I’ve done.

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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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NEW! OneNote 2016 Training Series

All Things Admin

Whether it’s creating effective systems for minute taking, follow-up on action items, travel planning, procedures documentation, or developing communication systems that are easy for your executives to scan for information, organization is a vital skill for success-minded admins. Reviewing and setting up default save locations.

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Sabotage in Today's Workplace May Begin With You

On The Job

Galford, Bob Frische and Cary Greene use unclassified World War II documents from the Office of Strategic Services (the predecessor of the CIA) to reveal how European resistance movement members were advised how they could muck up the internal works of an organization. Never permit shortcuts to speed up decision-making.

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Artificial Intelligence at Work: How Office Professionals Can Build A.I. Skills for the Future

Eat Your Career

Be Mindful of Privacy and Confidentiality Concerns All new technology runs the risk of opening us up to new privacy and confidentiality concerns. Stay Up-To-Date (Within Reason) Let’s be real: it’s impossible to stay fully up-to-date with all the advancements in A.I…and All too often, we end up working on autopilot.

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Breaking down Minutes: The Art of Minute Taking

Who's the Real Boss?

However, every type of minutes will always serve the same purpose at a very high level and will always capture – who was there; what was said; and what the actions were. And it doesn’t matter if they’re good minutes or not, as the more you read, the more you’ll realise what you should and shouldn’t do.

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Webinar Advanced Minute Taking Workshop

Office Dynamics

Do you have a moment of panic when you're asked to take meeting minutes? Do you worry that during a meeting you will be asked a parliamentary procedure question? Do you have trouble deciding what to record and what not to record in your minutes? Do you leave a meeting with pages of notes you can't decipher later?