{"id":11357,"date":"2023-03-30T19:04:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T19:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/at-some-point-in-your-career-you-might-find-yourself-sitting-on-a-committee-or-leading-one\/"},"modified":"2023-03-30T19:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T19:04:46","slug":"at-some-point-in-your-career-you-might-find-yourself-sitting-on-a-committee-or-leading-one","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/at-some-point-in-your-career-you-might-find-yourself-sitting-on-a-committee-or-leading-one\/","title":{"rendered":"At some point in your career you might find yourself sitting on a committee or leading one."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-sm-12 messageContent\">\n <b>Learning Goal: <\/b>I&#8217;m working on a business writing question and need the explanation and answer to help me learn.<\/p>\n<p>At some point in your career you might find yourself sitting on a committee or leading one. This would be an important opportunity to flex your note-taking skills and then showcase your ability to convert these notes into official meeting minutes. Minutes are one of the ways to keep track of what is discussed at meetings and ensure action points are followed through on. Meeting minutes may seem to be insignificant, but are actually official documents of the company and can be subpoenaed as evidence in a court of law. An essential skill for any manager is to know how to write minutes, what should be contained in them (as well as what should not be contained in them), and how to format them for presentation.<\/p>\n<p>Your task is to create an informal report. You will watch a video of a mock meeting (in the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Watch It\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd box below) and create a word document version of the meeting minutes. You will turn this assignment in below.<\/p>\n<h2>Required Sections<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Date and Time<\/li>\n<li>Name of attendees<\/li>\n<li>Acceptance or corrections to previous meeting minutes<\/li>\n<li>Actions to be taken including the next steps<\/li>\n<li>The person assigned to each action<\/li>\n<li>Checkpoint on tasks\/progress<\/li>\n<li>The voting outcomes (if there are any)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>WATCH IT<\/h3>\n<p>This meeting took place on January 28th, 2016, at 3pm. The participant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s names are Sarah, Eleanor, and Julie. <a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/course-building\/BCommMgrs\/Assignments\/MockMeetingforMinuteTaking_Transcript.rtf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to read a transcript of this video.<span class=\"external_link_icon\"><br \/>\n    <svg viewbox=\"\">\n     <path><\/path>\n    <\/svg><span class=\"screenreader-only\">Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ItIpCy7o0L4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%;\" rel=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Assignment Resources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Watch this video (or read the transcript): <a href=\"https:\/\/lianza.org.nz\/5-minutes-taking-minutes\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">5 Minutes on Taking Minutes<span class=\"external_link_icon\"><br \/>\n     <svg viewbox=\"\">\n      <path><\/path>\n     <\/svg><span class=\"screenreader-only\">Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Examples of meeting minutes:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wikimediafoundation.org\/wiki\/Minutes\/2009-08-25\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wikimedia Foundation Minutes<span class=\"external_link_icon\"><br \/>\n       <svg viewbox=\"\">\n        <path><\/path>\n       <\/svg><span class=\"screenreader-only\">Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pmg.org.za\/committee-meeting\/7005\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Adoption of Minutes; interviews: discussion<span class=\"external_link_icon\"><br \/>\n       <svg viewbox=\"\">\n        <path><\/path>\n       <\/svg><span class=\"screenreader-only\">Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.org\/minutes20070411\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">OSI Board Meeting Minutes, April 11, 2007<span class=\"external_link_icon\"><br \/>\n       <svg viewbox=\"\">\n        <path><\/path>\n       <\/svg><span class=\"screenreader-only\">Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>LICENSES AND ATTRIBUTIONS<\/p>\n<p>CC LICENSED CONTENT, ORIGINAL<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assignment: Reports. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CC BY: Attribution<span class=\"external_link_icon\"><br \/>\n      <svg viewbox=\"\">\n       <path><\/path>\n      <\/svg><span class=\"screenreader-only\">Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CC LICENSED CONTENT, SHARED PREVIOUSLY<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mock Meeting for Minute Taking. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: learn4lifewithmrsb. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: YouTube. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: Mock Meeting for Minute Taking. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CC BY: Attribution<span class=\"external_link_icon\"><br \/>\n      <svg viewbox=\"\">\n       <path><\/path>\n      <\/svg><span class=\"screenreader-only\">Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>5 minutes on Taking Minutes. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Lianza. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lianza. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lianza.org.nz\/5-minutes-taking-minutes\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/lianza.org.nz\/5-minutes-taking-minutes<span class=\"external_link_icon\"><br \/>\n     <svg viewbox=\"\">\n      <path><\/path>\n     <\/svg><span class=\"screenreader-only\">Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CC BY: Attribution<span class=\"external_link_icon\"><br \/>\n      <svg viewbox=\"\">\n       <path><\/path>\n      <\/svg><span class=\"screenreader-only\">Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"questions-requirements\">\n<p class=\"requirement\">Requirements: 1.5<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning Goal: I&#8217;m working on a business writing question and need the explanation and answer to help me learn. 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