Minutes of a meeting 2

Today is Selangor’s public holiday but unfortunate enough for me, I still have to attend a meeting. As I said in my earlier post, I will offer myself to write the minutes of a meeting this time. Thus, I honoured my words.

Although I tried to note down everything (regardless if it is relevant to the agenda) discussed during the meeting, I was still very lost. I couldn't figure out what are M67, M68, I84, and IBS… etc, and because the whole thing was inter-related, I was led astray all along the way.

I have not started on the writing yet, but I don't think that the result will be optimistic.

I keep finding excuses for my failure... Is that true that I am really not fit to handle a simple task like minutes writing or is that because of I wasn’t involved during their previous meetings. Besides, the team which handle this case has been with the client for some time, can it be that because of inexperience with the client and smudged vision of the whole work flow affect my performance? I really don't know! I don't even know that whether I should proceed with the writing or not. I do not want it to end up with another round of disgrace!

Fine, I'll not give in! Perhaps I should spend some humble time with the experienced colleagues for enlightenment. Maybe I can find a way out from there... (They are all busy person, hope that they will be not be irritated by me asking them all sort of questions)

Writing minutes of a meeting

I am not quite a secretary guy and I was asked to write minutes of a meeting today!

Seriously, I really don't understand why my company wanted me to write minutes. They claimed that this is the best way for me to understand the whole project inside out. But honestly, I would rather prefer to do what I was hired to do.

Never mind writing minutes, the feedback i got for my minutes was my sentences were too general and my attention to detail were minimal. Please consider that this was like my second attempt in minutes writing and I wasn’t given any proper instruction on how to do it. To make matter worst, this meeting was like my first out of a dozen meetings they have been having with the client (I guess they probably think I could instantly pick up the whole scenario). So it was a serious OMG case for me... lol!

With all the negative feedback, I bet they wanted to train me more on minutes writing. They even conducted a very educational "lesson" for me and some other new staffs this afternoon on "THE IMPORTANCE OF MINUTES OF A MEETING" and "HOW TO TRANSFORM SPEECHES INTO USEFUL HANDWRITTEN INFOMATION".(I guess their intention to pull in some extra peoples was to disguise the idea of the "lesson" was targeted on me.)

Regardless, I know that their intention was good. Perhaps I was too much of an egotist to accept a simple task like minutes writing. I can't possibly give in; I can't simply let them think that I cannot handle a task like this.

And yes, I will be having another round of meeting tomorrow. Guess what, THIS TIME I’M GONNA OFFER MYSELF TO WRITE THEM A GOOD MINUTES, or at least I will try to write a good one. ^^