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How to Take Minutes

or Notes at a Meeting

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Product Title: The Ultimate Guide for How to Take Minutes and Notes at Meetings (for Administrative Professionals or Anyone Taking Minutes at Meetings)

Product Format: 23 1/2 (8 1/2" x 11") pages of single-spaced information. Electronic publication (PDF extension file); read with Adobe Reader version 5.0 or higher

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Item 1. PUBLICATION: The Ultimate Guide for How to Take Minutes and Notes at Meetings --for Administrative Professionals or Anyone Taking Minutes at Meetings (from The Effective Admin Tips Series) (PDF extension file)
Item 2. HANDOUT and AUDIO: Seven Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make During Minute Taking (PDF extension file and MP3 file)
Item 3. HANDOUT: Quicker Note Taking -- Creative Note Taking Tips for Use During Minute Taking (PDF extension file)
Item 4. HANDOUT: Recording Discussion in Minutes -- How much of the discussion should you include in the minutes? What's important to record? (PDF extension file)
Item 5. CHECKLIST: Pre-Meeting Checklist for the Minute Taker (PDF extension file)
Item 6. CHECKLIST: Post-Meeting Checklist for the Minute Taker (PDF extension file)
Item 7. CHECKLIST: Minutes Quality Checklist -- Final Check of Your Minutes Before Submission to the Approver (PDF extension file)

Are you teaching a class on minute taking? If so, purchase a copy of this minute taking packet for every student in your class and use all of it or just some of it to supplement your own minute-taking materials. (The copyright information must remain on all of the publications you distribute to your students.) If you are purchasing more than 10 copies at a time, contact me for a discount.

Need Approval From Your Employer To Order This Minute-Taking Publication Packet? CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD AND PRINT A DESCRIPTIVE ORDERING BROCHURE for this minute-taking packet for administrative assistants and executive assistants so you can pass it on to your employer for payment approval, or use it to order by postal mail with a check.

Dear Administrative Professional or Prospective Minute Taker,

"Are You STRESSING

About How to Take

Meeting Minutes?"

"...Then Get the Skills and Knowledge you Need to Start Taking Minutes the Right Way ... and Get it in the Next Five Minutes"

     If you are an administrative professional expected or required to take minutes for your company or organization, you've come to the right place for help. You can learn how to EASILY take minutes starting right now.

     Even if you already take minutes at meetings, you can get reassurance that you're doing it right.

     Or learn tips to improve your minute-taking skills.

     If you never do this task as well as you'd like to, then my publication on this topic should improve your minute-taking skills significantly.

     I personally wrote The Ultimate Guide for How to Take Minutes and Notes at Meetings (for Administrative Professionals or Anyone Taking Minutes at Meetings). It's a 23-page digital publication jam packed with how-to information about minute taking that you can download instantly and read in 15 minutes. Administrative assistants and executive assistants frequently purchase this downloadable guide to learn how to take minutes or improve their current minute-taking habits. You can read some of their comments about the usefulness of the minute taking packet further below. But first, here's a little tidbit about the minute taking packet author and producer...

I'm done reading. I just want to order the minute taking packet now:

WHO I AM

     My name is Karen Porter. I'm The Administrative Professional Job Performance and Career Success Coach and Advisor and founder and president of both The Effective Admin and the Virtual Association for Administrative Professionals.

     I advise administrative professionals about their job performance issues and career management, providing tips and guidance. I've been doing so full time for more than seven years, which is when The Effective Admin opened for business. I've helped thousands of administrative professionals during that period (and many more to come).

     The Ultimate Guide for How to Take Minutes and Notes at Meetings (for Administrative Professionals or Anyone Taking Minutes at Meetings) is one of my downloadable informational publications offering advice and information to administrative assistants and executive assistants (or anyone wanting to learn about minute taking).

HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

What minutes are and what minutes are not

What you should put in minutes and what you should not put in minutes

How to take notes for minutes at meetings, and how to organize and prepare them later to form the final minutes

How to structure the minutes

What order to use when inserting the meeting content into the minutes

When you should distribute the minutes

What is an "in-camera" meeting and what does it mean to record minutes at one

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Whose signature needs to be on the minutes, or not

Who should approve the minutes

Why minutes are useful and important (there really are some good reasons)

What types of meetings you might take minutes at

Who the meeting attendees really are and where and how you list them on the minutes

What it really means to be "present" in a meeting and "in attendance"

When you should use the subheadings "regrets," "apologies" and "absent" (using the proper choice of these words will make a big difference to the attendees you associate with these words)

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How to prepare to take minutes (that's half the job right there)

How to make a correction to the minutes after you've distributed them

What to do when someone complains about your minutes and asks you to make a change in them -- after you've already distributed the final version

If there are legal consequences related to minute taking (can your minutes end up in a court room)

What to do with any notes you made (including tape recordings you made) and used to create the official minutes (this is very important)

Some basic definitions for words and phrases you need to know when taking minutes and attending meetings like motion, quorum, received, unfinished business, new business, amend, rescind, on the floor, tabled, general consent and resolution

What to talk to your meeting chairperson about before the meeting

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What to do when the group meeting haphazardly addresses the same agenda item throughout the meeting (do you record this each time, and if so, where in the minutes)

What to do when the group discusses all the items on the agenda but not in the agenda order

What to do when an argument or heated discussion breaks out in the meeting

What are skeletal minutes

What to do when you didn't hear something said in the meeting or need clarification of something in the meeting (can you interrupt the meeting dialogue and should you)

What to do when meeting attendees start telling you exactly what to write in the minutes

What to write in the minutes when the group discussion doesn't appear to lead to an action

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What to write in the minutes when the group starts talking about things it doesn't plan to do (how many angles of a discussion should you record in the minutes)

Why your job as minute taker in a formal meeting is so important and why you should be trained adequately for this task

What should be in your notes before you ever get to the meeting or start taking minutes

What you should read before the meeting at which you'll take minutes and why

What items you need to bring to the meeting to take minutes

Why you should and shouldn't use a tape recorder in the meeting to record it for use in creating your minutes

What is the "mapping technique" you can use to take notes for minutes in meetings

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Whether "shorthand" is necessary for minute taking

Where the best place is for you to sit in the meeting to take notes for the minutes

How to get the names of the meeting attendees so you can put them in your roll call section (and what if you don't recognize or know the attendees)

And lots more

OOPS!

     Just as good as what you'll learn to do is what you'll learn to avoid.

     For instance, you'll learn to avoid making some all too common mistakes when taking minutes such as writing "he said, she said" minutes.

     And if you are doing that, stop now because that signals that you're a real rookie at minute taking.

TAKING MINUTES IS NOT SCARY WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING

     If your manager or executive recently asked you to take minutes at a meeting and your heart fluttered with panic, it's time to get hold of yourself. Taking minutes at meetings appears scary at first glance -- until you know exactly what minute taking really is and how to do it. That's one way you develop confidence in yourself in regard to minute taking: know what you're doing before you have to do it!

    Indeed it would be scary for both you and the person for whom you're taking minutes if you intend to take minutes "by learning as you go" with no training and no concept of what are minutes and what is meant by minute taking.

     If you've never taken minutes at meetings or never do this task as well as you'd like to, then this publication should improve your minute-taking skills significantly.

     That's true whether you are an administrative professional or hold any type of position that requires you to take minutes for your company or organization.

I'm done reading. I just want to order the minute taking packet now:

WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT THIS GUIDE

     I'm confident that this minute-taking guide will clarify minute taking for you and make taking minutes easier for you. But you don't have to take my word for it; instead read the real and unedited comments printed below.

     All of these people below have read and used this guide for assistance with taking minutes at meetings. Here are their comments:

"I was looking for some good info on taking minutes and purchased this one because it sounded like what I was looking for. This is a great document - extremely helpful. Easy to read, well organized and well documented."

Gloria Scales

Access Facilitator
Swan Hills, AB. Canada

"I purchased the minute taking product because I needed to take better notes at business meetings. The product was a very useful tool. I was able to read it easily and received detailed steps in taking effective minutes."

Kaliah Baker
Secretary
Gary, IN

"I purchased 'The Ultimate Guide for How to Take Minutes and Notes at Meetings for Administrative Professionals' because this has been an area of struggle for me for as long as I've been an administrative professional. ...recently my boss has been holding more and more task force meetings and I needed some real help.... I purchased this product in order to increase my skills so that I can crank out better minutes in less time. I have found this product extremely helpful. There's yellow highlights on every single page."

Dee Carter
Administrative Assistant
Dallas, Texas

"So often secretaries/assistants are pushed into taking meeting notes and sometimes are unfamiliar with the topic - or unclear as to what exactly constitutes 'minutes'. This [publication] topic was a very effective tool in order to get the job done and feel confident in its quality.

...very informational - basically an 'everything you'd ever want to know' guide."
Sheila Minogue
Executive Assistant
West Des Moines, IA

"The digital information on minute taking is proving very helpful to me. My supervisor was very pleased that I found this resource!"

Thank you very much,
Rebecca

"I purchased the Meeting Minutes [guide] because I was struggling with how much detail to include in the minutes. Very useful. Gave good reasons for what should be included and when."
Kathy Olson
Administrative Assistant
Madison, WI



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BUY NOW And You'll Get The 23 1/2 Page Ultimate Guide for How to Take Minutes and Notes at Meetings, Plus You'll Get The Additional Supplemental Handouts and Checklists (all related to minute taking)

SO, TODAY YOU GET ALL THIS:

Product Product Details

Item 1. Publication: The Ultimate Guide for How to Take Minutes and Notes at Meetings (for Administrative Professionals or Anyone Taking Minutes at Meetings). 23 1/2 (8 1/2" x 11") pages of single-spaced information. Electronic publication (PDF extension file); read with Adobe Reader version 5.0 or higher

Item 2. HANDOUT and AUDIO: Seven Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make During Minute Taking Read the 1 1/3 pages handout and/or listen to the downloadable mp3 format audio file with the same copy (duration 12:23, size 2.83 MB).

Item 3. HANDOUT: Quicker Note Taking -- Creative Note Taking Tips for Use During Minute Taking 3 1/3 pages, Electronic publication (PDF extension file); read with Adobe Reader version 5.0 or higher

Item 4. HANDOUT: Recording Discussion in Minutes -- How much of the discussion should you include in the minutes? What's important to record? 4 1/3 pages, Electronic publication (PDF extension file); read with Adobe Reader version 5.0 or higher

Item 5. CHECKLIST: Pre-Meeting Checklist for the Minute Taker 2 2/3 pages, Electronic publication (PDF extension file); read with Adobe Reader version 5.0 or higher

Item 6. CHECKLIST: Post-Meeting Checklist for the Minute Taker 1 1/3 pages, Electronic publication (PDF extension file); read with Adobe Reader version 5.0 or higher

Item 7. CHECKLIST: Minutes Quality Checklist -- Final Check of Your Minutes Before Submission to the Approver 2 1/3 pages, Electronic publication (PDF extension file); read with Adobe Reader version 5.0 or higher

PRICE: $29.97 USD per person price - If you are buying for multiple people, change the quantity in your shopping cart at checkout to reflect that number and click the "recalculate" button in the cart if needed.

Are you teaching a class on minute taking? If so, purchase a copy of this minute taking packet for every student in your class and use all of it or just some of it to supplement your own minute-taking materials. (The copyright information must remain on all of the publications you distribute to your students.) If you are purchasing more than 10 copies at a time, contact me for a discount.

If you have any difficulty with placing your order, first check to make sure that you are entering the exact street address/zip code that's on file with the issuer of the credit card you're using. If you're doing that correctly, then e-mail me for assistance: karen@albeepublishing.com

Warmest Regards,

Karen Porter

The Administrative Professional

Job Performance and Career Success Coach and Advisor,

and Founder and President of The Effective Admin™ (TEA)

and the Virtual Association for Administrative Professionals™ (VAAP)

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PS: If you already own Item 1. Publication: The Ultimate Guide for How to Take Minutes and Notes at Meetings (for Administrative Professionals or Anyone Taking Minutes at Meetings) and only need the supplemental handout and checklist items described above on this page, you can now get just those items (i.e. starting with Item 2 and onward) through the "add to cart" link below.

CAUTION: If you do NOT own item 1, the main publication in the packet listed above, I do NOT recommend you buy just these supplemental items. In that case, you would be wise to get the above minute taking packet which includes Item 1. Publication: The Ultimate Guide for How to Take Minutes and Notes at Meetings (for Administrative Professionals or Anyone Taking Minutes at Meetings), or you will not learn how to take minutes or improve your minute taking skills (which is why you are here). This "add to cart" link below contains just the supplemental materials and checklists (items 2 onward) for those who already own the main item 1 publication :

PRICE: $11.00 USD per person price If you are buying for multiple people, change the quantity in your shopping cart at checkout to reflect that number and click the "recalculate" button in the cart if needed.

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