keeping minutes of a meeting

A small tip for keeping minutes of a meeting:

1. If you join a meeting, then please try to take minutes of the meeting by yourself (unless you’re a final decision maker). If you cannot understand words, contexts, etc., ask for other participants’ help after the meeting. (That’s why taking minutes is one of the best ways to learn especially for young professionals.)

2. Finish taking your own minutes, ask other participants (on your end, such as your boss and colleagues) to review, update the minutes when necessary.

3. After completing the minutes on your company’s end, then distribute it to all the participants and other related parties. When sending the completed minutes, please do include executive summary not only for those who cannot attend, but also for the participants who join the meeting. Executive summary is the best way to summarize what needs to be done, how, when, who.. If you really understand the situation, you should be able to do it; otherwise, you understand you did not understand it.

Hope this helps.