From the course: Taking Exceptional Meeting Notes

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Understand the why

Understand the why

- [Speaker 1] You mentioned that when you are taking your notes, the most critical things, such as the decisions made and the action items, who will do what by when, to what extent do we want to share the key considerations of those decisions? 'Cause sometimes, those conversations are quite meandering and the landed on decision, and sometimes they're quite clear, "Oh, this critically hinges upon four key inputs." So how do you think about note-taking in these environments? - [Speaker 2] Yeah, I mean, I'd say it's kind of an elevation of note-taking. So if you're in the beginning, and you're still just trying to keep up with the Joneses in you're note-taking, then it's fine to capture just the most salient points, meaning the key decisions and the action items. I think that's the minimum that you really want to capture in order for your notes to be useful to others. But once you progress to being able to extrapolate, and organize information in your note-taking, and ideally doing that…

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