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Quick Summary
If you're going to do meeting minutes, make sure they're sharp, concise, and readable.
What this is
This template provides two formats for keeping useful, effective meeting minutes, such as for project team meetings or review meetings.
Why it's useful
We're not necessarily huge fans of meeting minutes -- if they're very long at all, they may not be very usable! But sometimes minutes are needed to provide a record of key discussion topics and outcomes, especially for people who weren't there. And a good documentation of meeting topics, decisions, and actions can provide valuable records for the active phase of a project, as well as fodder for lessons learned as the project closes out. That is, if the meeting minutes are done in a format that people can scan quickly and easily for the information they need!
These formats are designed to provide a crisp, concise record of meeting context, major topics covered, and key actions, issues, and decisions.
How to use it
HINT: The goal is to NOT record reams and reams and pages and pages of notes that are hard to digest. Pick a format that fits your meetings and your information communication needs. Don't do minutes just for the sake of doing minutes, do them because you fully understand who will need to reference the minutes and for what. Then, for each meeting, do the following:
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