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Taking Minutes of Meetings
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Taking Minutes of Meetings

How to Take Efficient Notes that Make Sense and Support Meetings that Matter (Creating Success Series)

Joanna Gutmann
Kogan Page, 2019

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8

Qualities

  • Comprehensive
  • Applicable
  • Well Structured

Recommendation

The unsung hero of any meeting is the minute-taker, who records the decisions that fuel the engine of business. Minute-taking isn’t merely scribbling notes. A skilled minute-taker distills lengthy discussions to their essence and creates order and harmony from the discordant process of reaching a consensus. In this manual’s fifth edition, office communication consultant Joanna Gutmann explains every aspect of the process, including setting up the meeting, taking the notes and formatting the minutes. Her guide is an indispensable reference for every minute-taker.

Take-Aways

  • Meeting minutes provide a record of discussion topics, action items and outcomes.
  • The learnable skill of minute-taking includes organizing, careful listening and clear reporting.
  • The meeting cycle has clear organizational stages.

About the Author

Office communication training consultant Joanna Gutmann has designed and implemented courses on office skills and communication for secretaries and other office staff members.

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