Mastering Minuting - Top Tips

Like the famous Swiss army knife, company secretaries need to be practical, precise and versatile. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Company secretaries play a crucial role in the governance of organisations by guiding the board and wider leadership team, and their expertise is also called upon across a hugely diverse range of corporate activities on a daily basis. For many governance professionals, minuting meetings is one aspect of their responsibilities, and not in every case their favourite activity! Although not always understood, there is huge skill in minuting meetings properly, and while the topics covered in a meeting will vary wildly depending on the type of business, there’s very much a commonality in terms of the practical issues encountered by those taking the minutes.

Recognising this, we hosted a series of “Minuting Masterclasses” in our offices, bringing together the company secretarial community to share knowledge and their minuting top tips. The panel discussion format enabled people to learn from others who are also at the coal face of minuting challenges, and we’ve aimed to bring together here some key practical hints and tips from those sessions. Many will be familiar to you from your own experiences, hopefully giving you reassurance that you are not alone! We hope you will also find some new pointers or ways of looking at minuting which help you in a practical way.

Feedback is welcomed and we are also looking to host similar discussion sessions in the future, so please get in touch with us if you would like to get involved and you will be more than welcome.

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