Meeting Tips
To do
- Incorporate the facilitator's duties
- Incorporate example meeting minutes snippets
Attendance
- List everyone who attended.
- For some meetings, list if they were late
Check in
- Ask how everyone's doing -- usually requires no notes
Committments from Previous Meeting
- Record the status of each item
- Did it change owners?
- Is it finished?
- Is it a carryover? (If so, re-enter in the future committments section)
Old Business
- Record item names
- Key points from discussion
- Proposals (at least loose wording)
- Decisions -- Mark them as decisions -- Make sure the wording is accurate
New Business
- Same pints at Old Business
Future Committments
- Record the item, its owner, and a deadline
Next Meeting
- Record scribe
- Record facilitator
- Record reporter (i.e. to Council Meeting or Staff Meeting)
- Record next time and place of meeting