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Sunday, 20 May 2018

Business & Technical English Writing - Meeting Documents


MEETING DOCUMENTS

·     Use meeting documents as productive and efficient meetings.
·     Two principal documents (agenda and minutes)

1.  Agenda
o  list of topics to be discussed (in order of listing),
o  names of participant
o  agenda helps focus on the core topics,
o  allows to control the pace and flow of a meeting,
o  Identify important items to be acted upon.
o  Meetings without published agendas seem unfocused and unproductive.

DEVELOPMENT TEAM AGENDA

                               i.         Report by Mr. Hamid on investigation of possible security software 
                            ii.         Report by Ms. Sara on development of database prototypes 
                          iii.         Discussion of possible hardware platforms 
                          iv.         Review of deadlines for project 
                             v.         Agenda for next meeting

2.  Minutes
·     protocols, the written record of meetings,
·     particularly of Boards of Directors and/or Shareholders of corporations,
·     kept by the secretary of the organization.
·     overview of the structure of the meeting,
·     starting with a list of those present,
·     statement of the various issues put before the participants, and each of their responses thereto.
·     created the hearing by a typist or court recorder at the meeting, who may record the meeting in shorthand, and then prepare the minutes
·     then issue them to the participants afterwards.
·     Alternatively, the meeting may be audio recorded or notes taken, and the minutes prepared later.
·     However, minutes to be brief and concentrate on issues rather than being a verbatim report,
·     Minute taker should have sufficient understanding of the subject matter to achieve goal.





TYPES OF MINUTES OF MEETING

Formal or informal.
·     required by federal state, or local law, by-laws, charters, or regulations. 
·     distributed among the members before the next meeting,
·     and then approved (sometimes after being amended)

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