Taking Minutes of Meetings 0749445599.pdf

Taking Minutes

of Meetings

CREATING SUCCESS

Taking Minutes

of Meetings

Second edition

Joanna Gutmann

London and Philadelphia

Publisher’s note

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First published in 2001

Second edition 2006

Reprinted 2006, 2007

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ISBN-10 0 7494 4559 9

ISBN-13 978 0 7494 4559 1

The views expressed in this book are those of the author, and are not necessarily the

same as those of Times Newspapers Ltd.

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gutmann, Joanna.

Taking minutes of meetings / Joanna Gutmann.-- 2nd ed.

p. cm. -- (Creating success series)

ISBN 0-7494-4559-9

1. Business meetings. 2. Business communication. 3. Minutes. Corporate.

4. Business records. I. Title. II. Series: Creating success.

HF5734.5.G88.2006

658.4’56--dc22

2006001615

Typeset by Jean Cussons Typesetting, Diss, Norfolk

Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall

Contents

Introduction

Background

Cycle of a meeting 7; The participants 10

Arranging a meeting

Who will attend 15; Administration 16

Sections of a meeting

Agenda

Agenda styles 31

Personal preparation

Creating the right environment

Attending the meeting

Taking notes

The message, not the words 69

Structuring notes

10.

Writing up the minutes

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