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How on earth do you write meeting minutes??
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Hi everyone, just looking for advice and maybe commiserations. I keep getting lumped with the task of writing minutes for horrible long meetings at work that I find hard to pay attention to.
Hopefully I'm getting away from that task soon but just wondering if anyone has any useful advice?
I do record the meetings (with permission from the attendees!) but it's getting things down concisely that's difficult. How do you figure out what is essential and what can be cut out??
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Tips for meeting minutes?
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Hello Folks!
So I’ve been an associate PM for about a year. However, I’m still not great in taking minutes. My issue is that people talk too fast and doesn’t leave me enough time to process the information and write down details :(
How do you guys do take minutes? Do you guys practice? If so, how?
Top Comment: Focus on issues and due outs. Makes it easier if there is a detailed agenda. Depending on the group, you could always talk with the facilitator of the meeting and work together to see what you can do to have the minutes be more useful. Before the next agenda item, review what you captured and what the due outs are. A lot depends on the group - if you are meeting with a bunch of senior folks, they may not like the 'interruptions'. But meeting minutes are extremely important so it's good you are trying to improve, I'd talk to the facilitator (or their proxy) prior to the meeting and get a clear understanding of the goal of the meeting. The scribe for my meetings had the same problem and I appreciated her coming to me indicating she was finding it challenging to know what to jot down. Once a decision was made or a due out was verbalized, I would repeat it, looking at my scribe to ensure she was capturing it. Good luck!
Why does Reddit make me wait 5,7,9, etc. minutes between posts ?
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This is ridiculous .
So I get about the bota yes. They are massively feeding into the dead internet theory.
But holy hell. I've tried to make 5 or 6 c omments in about 30 minutes and it's taken over an hour bc of wait times and then I finally give up or forget .
It's like it's setup up specifically for bots... Oh it seems you aren't human , bot loop keeps attempting ad infinitum. Until the time limit passes and multiple by 1 bit being able to do that 1000x over .
Where are my real people at !
Top Comment: How often do you need to post?
What Strategy do you use to Write Meeting Minutes
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Just got dragged into a 1-hour agenda-less meeting with a client and multiple stakeholders. A lot brought up relevant to the future possibilities but not a lot actually said.
How do you deal with this? Sorry for the noob question, it's just i don't know how to write an action/discussion point on pointless drivel
Top Comment: Group into topics discussed. Highlight key points discussed for each topic. Have key actions and decisions log in the end (if any) Point 2 depends on the preference of the client and team, personally i like 3/4 key points for each topic, dont like filling the MoM with noise..
Has anyone successfully hacked meeting minutes
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Taking minutes, action points and decisions is one of my biggest issues with being responsible for meetings, especially when the discussion is technical as well.
I’m currently looking at 2 iOS tools for recording and transcribing - notes and otter - not impressed yet though.
Has anyone in here found a hack to keep proper actions and decisions from meetings. Note that I do it well enough currently, I just believe there has to be a painless way. For example, I feel like ms teams and zoom should have some add-on in this area. Do you know of any?
Top Comment: The ultimate hack which many of the PMS I work with do is make someone else do it
Does anyone else struggle to write minutes?. I recorded a meeting aswell as took notes and found myself listening back to the whole meeting. How do you write minutes the best way?
Main Post: Does anyone else struggle to write minutes?. I recorded a meeting aswell as took notes and found myself listening back to the whole meeting. How do you write minutes the best way?
Top Comment: I try to focus on these points: topic topic owner/responsible person concerns/risks brought forward response/decision action items You don’t need a record of every single things that’s been said, but focusing on these points might help. Decisions and action items, I find, are the items that should be recorded no matter what. Feel free to copy paste the above or a variation of it, under each agenda item for note taking. Hope this helps :)