How to write meeting minutes at work as a beginner
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- Опубликовано: 6 янв 2025
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How to write meeting minutes at work? As a management consultant, you're going to have to take meeting minutes and take notes in work meetings. Hopefully this is a quick overview of key things you need to write down, especially digital notes in any corporate job that you'll be doing.
I use a branded version of these meeting notes in my management consulting job but this can apply to all home office jobs. Link to meeting minutes template can be found here: drive.google.c...
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Template I made can be found here: drive.google.com/file/d/1JeZKxYeRPNOAZAVqqlaloJs3h6cf-tUc/view?usp=sharing
NOTE:
1) Change fonts / colours to your firm branding
2) Add a client logo in the top right
3) Delete things you don't need
4) Rename the document name
template
heya! unfortunately the link doesn't work :/
this is super super useful and owuld love to use your template :)
thank you.
As a side note, love how you kept this snappy. Many youtubers speak too slow or upload too-long videos.
Trying to keep the education videos short and sweet :)
I'd like to second this. I really appreciate the pace.
Thanks for sharing this helpful tutorial.
Just got a job as a senior consultant, going through all of your videos, feeling lucky to find such useful videos. Thanks Kajol. 😀
Great to hear! Major major congrats on the new job :)
@@KajolPhadnis Thankyou Kajol 😀
what i find really difficult with business requirement meetings is that so many people are saying different/conflicting things about the same topic (stakeholders, subject experts, etc) and it just goes around and around. eventually, someone says "ok let's go with that" but at that point im still writing down the 5th suggestion and i end up missing what "that" is cause so many solutions were discussed thoroughly to get where we ended up. any tips on how to improve following where the decisions eventually land?
Have you thought about voice recording the meeting (with permission of course)? If not, don’t be afraid to speak up and ask to verify what suggestion was agreed on.
Record it secretly on phone
Always ask permission first.
It's easier to get the requirement if your hosting the meeting. If not, for those big corporate level meetings, they are usually recorded either way for this very reason.
In time you develop an ear for it too.
@@tatianabritton6258 Great suggestion!
omg today i entered my first ever BIG meeting and really struggled yet I run over to your youtube. Thank goodness! Cheers to all the tips
Anytime Hannah xxx
As I live and breath🤣🤣, the fastest woman alive.
Thank you for the tips and templates.
Super duper helpful tips! I’ve always struggled with summarising and writing straightforward lecture notes, meeting minutes etc. I will definitely try this in the near future ❤️
Awww glad it is helpful - lemme know how it goes 🤗
Don't forget to hit the like button :) Let me know what other topics you want me to cover!!
Resume writing for a consultant
Will add that
Hi Kajol, would you share your meeting minute template? thanks
This is great. I'm using your video and template in my Business English class tomorrow. Thanks a million👍
Great tips!
Maybe you could consider a slower pace in subsequent videos.
Tip: Pause for a few seconds before moving to a new point...
Thank you!
Showing a real life example would be great.
client confidentality and hahaha, imagine doing one of what my friends say in a discussion
A draft minutes example would be great
Oh she don't have an example...✌🏽
It's informative... However after watching video I got breathing problem.
Advice for you, u can take a pause of at least 1sec. After completing a sentence.
Can u add annex or attachments to minutes of meeting? Like the documents presented and used during the meeting?
Yes you defo can :)
@@KajolPhadnis how does one attach it? Is there a right way? My boss wants me to use excel to make a MoM and i cannot, for the life of me, figure out how i could attach files for references in that kind of form 😭
Nice, your style is similar to mine for taking minutes.
If the minutes are going to someone pretty high up, it help to ask someone you work with who knows them. Ask what is the best way to make the minutes easy to read.
Thank you for the tips. It was very helpful
" Kajol Phadnis - Wannabe CEO" hahahahahaha I love it! Never stop dreaming! ;-)
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Video is indeed very helpful, one suggestion though - can you speak little slow
Hopefully improved in my recent videos :) will go slower
I have learnt a lot!
Send it to someone who can learn too 🥰
@@KajolPhadnis I will do :)
Hehehe thanks x
@@KajolPhadnis 😁😊☺
That's a great video to send to some people 👀😂
Quick 3 min video hollaaaaa
i write minutes for meetings all the time at work as i am a senior admin, but i want to improve my minute taking skills because i feel like i don't know if my minutes are good enough to a high standard? i haven't had any complaints about them, i usually capture the main important points discussed and then the actions, but i want it to sound more professional if that makes sense? do you have any tips for this please? thanks x
AMAZING VIDEO!!!!
Awww so glad you enjoyed it ❤❤❤
Really informative and helpful, thank you. If you could slow it down just a bit, it would make it a little easier to take notes. :)
great info but please slow down you are talking way to fast.
Latest videos are defo slower now
Agreed
Wow I feel out of breath just watching this...
hahaha! me too!!
Great video! Would love a link/ downloadable version of this template if you could add it in the description or comments section!
I'll do this hehe - will comment again when I've added it!
@@KajolPhadnis sounds good, thanks!
pinned comment with the link :)
@@KajolPhadnis Thank you!
Is there a different writing current or previous minutes?
Unfortunately I do not have access to my system, so I'll have to listen and write.
You are beautiful and I couldn't focus on what you are saying. ❤
thanks, much respect Madam.
Awesome presentation.
Partly amazed I could keep up with your pace and still noticed how glossy your hair looks.. damn girl!
You conveyed important tips to take effective minutes but it was very difficult to followup your conversation like you rushed up
Sorry about that hopefully I've now improved in my latest videos
great advice!
Hehe thank you - glad you enjoyed it :)
In this day and age I can't figure out why people don't record it??? I was recording minutes in 1987. Lol.
what do you use? mini recorder?
In some meetings this isn’t allowed for privacy, security or confidentiality reasons. Although recording is great back up, why would you sit through the whole meeting again? Regulators etc. don’t want written documents and if you have to go through past sets of minutes for any reason, it’s a lot easier to review a document than it is to sit through a recording.
This is my PMO Interview Question how to create MOM and how to document it ..
Damn girl! I love you ♥️🤭😜
Omg stop 💙💙💙💙💙
I came here to learn on minutes 😃 of meeting 😂 for First year and ended up learning for future also 😂😂
Can you help me write emails and letters professionally?
Video on that soon
Perfectionist 🥵😍
Lmao we all are - need to get over this habit
@@KajolPhadnis haha I could only wish to be one! I’m not even close🤣 AKA the laziest person on this planet xD
@@aletsgetloud6 I'm lazier than you trust me hahahhaa but in a month I'll have a time management one which hopefully motivates you hahah
Thank you for this great tip. Actually my first time watching your videos but observed that you talk a bit too fast. Maybe you could moderate your pace a little. Just a little so one can digest what you are saying as you are saying it. Rather than pause to comprehend. #MyOpinion.
100% hopefully my newer videos have me talking slower
@@KajolPhadnis Amazing, you just earn a subscriber. I'll definitely go check them out. Thank you again 😊
You speak super fast
recent videos have slowed down hopefully :)
so beautiful ❤️
Do you prefer more than one person writing the MoM ?
Good question - 100% cause you often miss things as people speak sooo fast 😭😭😭
So so true. Happens to me all the time. I prefer having 2 people and divide the speakers into 2 groups allocating one group to each 😝
Need someone to collate that afterwords hehehe
Hahaha Yes
I was waiting for the REC thing which you did in your previous video. That was so cool 😝🙏🏼
You are missing the basics of communication. Dont be so fast that your viewers have to repeat the videos.
We’ve come too far with technology to be doing this. Why don’t the meeting just get recorded without showing the faces? Ppl can just state their name & position when they want to speak. Everyone gets an audio copy to do whatever they need to do & done!
omg - you need to SLOW down!
Latest videos have :)
You gotta speak slowly honey. Its hard to attend to you.
you look like winona ryder
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Please just speak a little slow
I love u
great vid but thank god for slowing speed is there lol
Haha sorry, hopefully the recent videos have slowed down
You can't be taking minutes and also be a CEO in the same meeting
sometimes you have to :)
You talk too fast its hard to follow...nice template though
I do but hopefully in my last 10 videos I've talked waaaay slower!
Why are u speaking so fast
Speaking way to fast to catch what you are saying.
you should little bit slow speaking.
Complete rubbish...No indication all how to do it...
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You talk way too fast. This was a waste of two minutes of my time