I think you make some unconscious assumptions that are worth revisiting. If you are collaborating with the others in the meeting, considering taking notes in a real-time shared edit document (E.g. Google Doc, Notion, Microsoft 365, etc.) then you can save five minutes at the end to review the notes and action items. This works for 1 on 1's, team meetings, customer meetings, sales calls, etc.
I totally hear you, Sean! Great comment and thanks for the nudge to check my unconscious assumptions.
Saving five minutes at the end of a meeting to capture next actions, etc. in a collaborative doc is something I strongly recommend, too.
It pulls down some of the admin pile-up and “who said what?” to do so, at the same time that many of these quick collab tools aren’t great as a task management system, so there’s still some residue from the meeting.
Additionally, some folks find that when they split focus between collaborative note-taking and paying attention to people, they’re not doing well at either. YMMV, obviously, but it’s worth considering.
I find handwritten note-taking is still easier, but typewritten notes can be divided by the attendees and is a skill that can be developed. John Smith of Accelerated taught me the value of shared note-taking in remote meetings; it offers reassurance to other participants that you are actually listening and not surfing the web or sending emails. I also think there may be an introvert/extrovert split: if I am typing and capturing my thoughts, I am not interrupting and not losing my thoughts (I use a separate file to capture unrelated notes). I think it's a question of getting your typing skill to the point where the mechanical overhead or muscle memory is on a par with handwriting, but I can see where it's 80% participation.
In portions of meetings where I need to be fully present, I take fewer notes (although, again, as an extrovert, taking notes reduces my interruptions, and I am better able to allow others to have their say).
Anytime you send you minutes after the conversation is over, there is friction involved in recovering the shared context (e.g., I did not say that, I did not agree to that, you said X, you committed to Y). I find it especially helpful to confirm my commitments in writing before the end of the meeting and to ask others to memorialize theirs so expectations and handoffs are clearer.
Scheduling back-to-back meetings might seem efficient, but it often overloads the brain and reduces productivity. Without 15-20 minutes of processing time, information gets mixed up, attention splinters, and performance declines. Giving space between meetings allows for better retention and clearer decision-making, benefiting both individuals and teams. https://www.cattranslator.org
I think you make some unconscious assumptions that are worth revisiting. If you are collaborating with the others in the meeting, considering taking notes in a real-time shared edit document (E.g. Google Doc, Notion, Microsoft 365, etc.) then you can save five minutes at the end to review the notes and action items. This works for 1 on 1's, team meetings, customer meetings, sales calls, etc.
I totally hear you, Sean! Great comment and thanks for the nudge to check my unconscious assumptions.
Saving five minutes at the end of a meeting to capture next actions, etc. in a collaborative doc is something I strongly recommend, too.
It pulls down some of the admin pile-up and “who said what?” to do so, at the same time that many of these quick collab tools aren’t great as a task management system, so there’s still some residue from the meeting.
Additionally, some folks find that when they split focus between collaborative note-taking and paying attention to people, they’re not doing well at either. YMMV, obviously, but it’s worth considering.
I find handwritten note-taking is still easier, but typewritten notes can be divided by the attendees and is a skill that can be developed. John Smith of Accelerated taught me the value of shared note-taking in remote meetings; it offers reassurance to other participants that you are actually listening and not surfing the web or sending emails. I also think there may be an introvert/extrovert split: if I am typing and capturing my thoughts, I am not interrupting and not losing my thoughts (I use a separate file to capture unrelated notes). I think it's a question of getting your typing skill to the point where the mechanical overhead or muscle memory is on a par with handwriting, but I can see where it's 80% participation.
In portions of meetings where I need to be fully present, I take fewer notes (although, again, as an extrovert, taking notes reduces my interruptions, and I am better able to allow others to have their say).
Anytime you send you minutes after the conversation is over, there is friction involved in recovering the shared context (e.g., I did not say that, I did not agree to that, you said X, you committed to Y). I find it especially helpful to confirm my commitments in writing before the end of the meeting and to ask others to memorialize theirs so expectations and handoffs are clearer.
Scheduling back-to-back meetings might seem efficient, but it often overloads the brain and reduces productivity. Without 15-20 minutes of processing time, information gets mixed up, attention splinters, and performance declines. Giving space between meetings allows for better retention and clearer decision-making, benefiting both individuals and teams. https://www.cattranslator.org