What are the tasks involved in taking minutes?

  • taking rough notes during your meetings
  • writing up these notes neatly or typing them out
  • copying and distributing them to relevant people
  • keeping all minutes together in a file for future reference
  • what skills do you need?
  • you need to be a good listener
  • minute-takers often spend more time listening than writing things down
  • you need to be reasonably confident about writing things down
  • it's useful to be able to use a computer, but not essential.
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