Meeting Minutes Sheet
Take minutes that stay useful, by giving most of the page to the two things anyone actually reads them for later: what was decided and who agreed to do what.
Office and committee · OC-02
A free printable agenda form — item, lead, purpose and minutes allowed, with a line for business notified in advance.
One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
Print it and write on it
Fill it in type and save
The fillable versions have real form fields — open them in any PDF reader, type into them and save. Printing help.
Circulate an agenda that keeps a meeting to time, by putting a named lead and a number of minutes against every item before anyone sits down.
Chairs, secretaries, committee members and anyone who runs a recurring meeting that overruns.
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: An agenda circulated before the meeting, with a time against each item and space for people to prepare.
Times and leads. An item with a time against it and a named lead runs shorter than one without. That is most of what an agenda is for.
Write-on lines: Group or committee · Meeting · Date · Start · Finish · Place or link · Chair · Papers circulated
Table, 7 rows: No. · Item · Lead · Purpose · Paper · Time
Ruled lines: Any other business notified in advance
Take minutes that stay useful, by giving most of the page to the two things anyone actually reads them for later: what was decided and who agreed to do what.
Keep every agreed action in one place with a name and a date against it, so the next meeting starts from what happened rather than from memory.
Hand a shift, a job or a role over properly, on the assumption that the person taking it does not yet know what they do not know.
The same subject, with a version you can fill in on screen.
The date, venue, chair and secretary for this year's meeting.
What falls due in each month of the year.
What happens when, where and with whom, in one running order.
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