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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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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. This is a great topic, but we have a few more items on our agenda that are critical. "Manage the process NOT the content!"

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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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A Meeting With Me

Productivityist

At first, those meetings were where I would do my GTD Weekly Review. 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.

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6 Tips for Effective Participation in Meetings

Ian's Messy Desk

There will always be those at a meeting so focused on their opinion that they are not really listening to what the others are saying. Review the agenda and clarify your thoughts prior to the meeting. Listen actively to the discussion. You don’t want to merely parrot or repeat another participant’s contribution.

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Tips on good minute taking

Practically Perfect PA

If your company does not have a branded template you should suggest this to your manager and design something for them, a simple word template with the following information will suffice: The name of the Committee meeting. The date, time and location of the meeting. The name of the minute taker. The attendees. The apologies.

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Tips on good minute taking

Practically Perfect PA

If your company does not have a branded template you should suggest this to your manager and design something for them, a simple word template with the following information will suffice: The name of the Committee meeting. The date, time and location of the meeting. The name of the minute taker. The attendees. The apologies.

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