Comments on: Outsource Your Minute-Taking http://www.welive2care.com/2009/12/05/outsource-your-minute-taking/ Philippines Call Center, Inbound, Outbound, Lead Generation, Customer Services & Telemarketing Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:04:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lin http://www.welive2care.com/2009/12/05/outsource-your-minute-taking/comment-page-1/#comment-206 Lin Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:21:32 +0000 http://www.welive2care.com/?p=1785#comment-206 This article on minutes taking is very true. I have experience in taking the minutes of corporate meetings and I must say it is not easy. Not many staff would like to do the task. The minutes taker should know beforehand what the meeting is all about, preferably have materials prior to the meeting that he/she can read up, especially when the meeting is about difficult subjects such as finance, economics, infrastructure, and what have you, not the usual corporate policies. In this case, a staff would have other things in mind about his/her work for the day and may not be able to take the crucial details of the meeting. I, an outsider, was asked to do it because the staff were pressed with work and the minutes taking task was taking up too much of their time and energy. This article on minutes taking is very true. I have experience in taking the minutes of corporate meetings and I must say it is not easy. Not many staff would like to do the task. The minutes taker should know beforehand what the meeting is all about, preferably have materials prior to the meeting that he/she can read up, especially when the meeting is about difficult subjects such as finance, economics, infrastructure, and what have you, not the usual corporate policies. In this case, a staff would have other things in mind about his/her work for the day and may not be able to take the crucial details of the meeting. I, an outsider, was asked to do it because the staff were pressed with work and the minutes taking task was taking up too much of their time and energy.

]]> By: Harry Waisbren http://www.welive2care.com/2009/12/05/outsource-your-minute-taking/comment-page-1/#comment-205 Harry Waisbren Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:48:20 +0000 http://www.welive2care.com/?p=1785#comment-205 Minutes are most definitely an important enough aspect of a meeting to justify outsourcing if need be, and should generally be taken seriously in proportion to the collective time cost that goes into conducting one and the collaborative benefits of a successful, enduring meeting. You are certainly right that the attitude needs to be that "you may have a sharp memory but really, it’s better to be safe than to be sorry." Moreover, having a comprehensive record of the details behind action items that might otherwise be forgotten prevents the time communicating back and forth determining after the fact what exactly was discussed during the meeting. I found Joanna Gutmann's "Taking Minutes of Meetings" to be a particularly useful resource chronicling the value of this important craft. Minutes are most definitely an important enough aspect of a meeting to justify outsourcing if need be, and should generally be taken seriously in proportion to the collective time cost that goes into conducting one and the collaborative benefits of a successful, enduring meeting.

You are certainly right that the attitude needs to be that “you may have a sharp memory but really, it’s better to be safe than to be sorry.” Moreover, having a comprehensive record of the details behind action items that might otherwise be forgotten prevents the time communicating back and forth determining after the fact what exactly was discussed during the meeting.

I found Joanna Gutmann’s “Taking Minutes of Meetings” to be a particularly useful resource chronicling the value of this important craft.

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