Meetings in progress 

Consistency and variation

What's wrong with this as a record of a meeting?

Has the minute taker reported all the important facts? Do we know who the speaker was? What were the 'many points to consider'? For whom was first aid training 'a priority'? Did you notice that all the sentences have a similar structure? They're all the same length, as if they've been written by a robot. After a while, any information presented this way seems boring and trite, no matter what it's about.

It's the minute taker's job to make the written record of a meeting:

clear

consistent

neutral but interesting.

Refer back to the minutes you wrote up earlier. Write them up in a different style; for example, if you wrote them up formally, as for an AGM, write them for an informal, ad hoc meeting. Post a record of your new style of minutes and seek some feedback from others in the ValleyView Meeting room, under the topic Ad hoc meeting minutes.

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