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How to Take Meeting Minutes and Formal Notes

Janet Ruth Heller is quoted in the article “How to Take Meeting Minutes and Formal Notes” by Kurt Birkenhagen posted on March 8, 2018 at https://www.conferencecalling.com/blog/how-to-take-meeting-minutes-and-formal-notes/

Here is some of my advice:

“Minutes should not exclude minority opinions,” says Heller. “Over time, people may change their minds, so an idea that gets voted down one year may be discussed again and accepted five years later.”

“Minutes should be detailed enough to give people who were not present a good summary of what people discussed and decided at a meeting,” says Heller.

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Janet Ruth Heller

I am the past president of the Michigan College English Association. I have a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. I have published four poetry books: Nature's Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021), Exodus (WordTech Communications, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011). My scholarly book, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama, was published in 1990 by the University of Missouri Press. My fiction picture book about bullying for children, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 7th edn. 2022), has won four national awards. My play The Cell Phone won fourth place in a national contest and was performed twice at the Fenton Village Players One-Act Play Festival on June 24-25, 2011 in Fenton, Michigan. Triton College produced another play, Pledging, as part of its Tritonysia Play Festival in May 2017. Choeofpleirn Press published Pledging in Rushing Through the Dark (2022).