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How do you do meeting notes for a meeting you don’t attend?
I still do minutes when I'm the most junior person in the room.
As SM1 said, you're always going to be doing meeting mins. My VP was in a meeting on client site with the client c-suite and he took the notes. Granted he passed them to someone to clean up and format but it's the basics, everyone does it.
@pwc1, there's a difference between taking notes and meeting minutes
Never. Look at it as an opportunity to highlight what matters to you superiors
Meetings are all about providing value to a collective group, if that means taking notes so that the group can reference back, great! People that can get away with not taking notes during a meeting are typically the ones driving the meeting / adding value in the moment through their spoken opinions. As alluded to by others this is often more senior people, but it doesn’t have to be. To be recognized as someone who can add value find low stake times to stop taking notes, track the conversation and identify when you have something new to add. Eventually your thoughts will be respected and they will find someone else to take notes.
I’ve seen Partners, CIOs and CEOs take notes during a meeting. What’s wrong with that? To answer your question, till you’re not the designated note taker. For your own good, never unless you’re Sheldon Cooper.
Thanks M1. Yes, obviously I will take notes in meetings I attend because I have a regular brain not a super brain. But I’m so tired of doing meeting minutes for meetings, especially ones I didn’t attend and aren’t related to my work. Taking other people’s notes and aggregating them for someone who’s not my manager or my work stream just seems like secretary work.