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Meeting Minutes Template (B)
What is the benefit of effective meeting minutes template? Use meeting minutes format for fast capturing of main points of the meeting.
Posted: Jun 2010
You must be having dozens of meeting every month. Some meetings are scheduled, routine monthly meetings. Some other are ad hoc meetings, that appear here and there. After so many meeting who can remember all facts, decisions and actions? Without proper meeting minutes nobody will remember.
The solution for managing meeting outcomes is keeping the meeting minutes. Having prepared meeting minutes format makes things easier. With good meeting minutes it becomes easier to capture meeting main points, responsible persons, deadlines and other important elements.
The good meeting minutes format should contain:
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Meeting title
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Date and place of the meeting
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Participants list
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Absence list
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Minutes Keeper
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Structured meeting minutes taken in sections and bullets
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Classification of meeting main points (Decision, Recommendation, Action, Information, etc.)
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Responsible person
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Due time for action
Structured meeting enables anybody to take meeting minutes on the fly.
The meeting minutes can be agreed even during the meeting. The meeting minutes should be sent to all stakeholders.
