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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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3 “Needs” of Time Management

Ian's Messy Desk

Does the process need to be improved ? Do the meeting minutes need to be prepared, printed, collated, staples and distributed to committee members? Can the minutes be handled by an e-mail attachment or better yet, posted to some form of groupware? Are you making the best use of tools and processes.

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3 Needs of Time Management

Ian's Messy Desk

Does the process need to be improved ? Do the meeting minutes need to be prepared, printed, collated, staples and distributed to committee members? Can the minutes be handled by an e-mail attachment or better yet, posted to some form of groupware? Are you making the best use of tools and processes.

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When you need it later: The Bring-Forward System

Laughing all the Way to Work

If there are forms that need to filled in and it has a due date in June, I put those forms in the June folder with a bf date on it for a week before it is due. I create a corresponding Task reminder and write something like this: WAITBIN need to prepare form for production by March 23rd. March 16, 2009 Patricia Robb said.

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New Hire Overload

Laughing all the Way to Work

All important information, but I knew I couldnt possibly retain much of what I was looking at in one sitting so I started to cheat and flip through a few tabs because I had to sign a form that I read the manual. EST Taking Effective Meeting Minutes Join me for a Webinar Oct. 5, 2010 at 12 p.m. Oh where or where is my password?

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Breaking down Minutes: The Art of Minute Taking

Who's the Real Boss?

And whilst I know in my own head what needs to be done, spelling it out for others in a step by step process is not as easy as it seems. … because, every meeting is different, and every meeting has a different purpose with a different set of minute expectations, by those that attend it and by the Chair of that meeting.

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