From the course: Taking Exceptional Meeting Notes

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Clarify decisions and actions

Clarify decisions and actions

- [Speaker With Clear Tone] Okay, so we got the typing speed up. Hesitations are behind us. We're in the moment. What do we actually do? - [Speaker With Clean Tone] So there's a couple phases in the book, I break this down on note taking. In the very beginning of a project, oftentimes, you'll start a project and not actually know what's going on. And so if you're at a meeting and you're trying to facilitate and you're trying to take notes, sometimes that's very difficult. And so I call this phase the fake it till you make it phase. And the idea here is you're listening intently. You're asking questions when you don't understand things, but you're trying not to slow down the discussion or the meeting. And so one thing you can do is if there are things that you really need clarification on, you can sort of jot them down. Sometimes, I'll create like my own private note section, like note to myself, ask about this later because I don't want to slow this down. But in the span of the…

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