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• Aim for the ABCD principle – Accurate, Brief, Clear and most importantly, Dull.
• You are an essential part of the team that ensures an effective meeting; try to get the meeting’s Chair to understand this.
• Don’t write everything down; focus on the decisions and action points.
• Don’t record what individual people say (with very limited exceptions).
• Write up your minutes as soon as possible after the meeting, while you can still fill in any gaps in your notes.
• Use limited, repetitive vocabulary – eg. noted, agreed, approved, discussed, concern was expressed etc
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