Igor ZdorovyakDirector of Projects| ImmunovantFair Lawn, Nj, United States
Can Taking Notes During A Meeting Be A Mistake?
We all took notes during our school days. We graduated and took this habit to our work lives. Now it’s time to break this habit as we go up in our ranks.
As a Project Manager it’s your to make sure that you keep things on track and making sure everyone do what they supposed to do. You lead meetings, you create agenda items, you prepare meeting minutes, you update project plan, you keeping an eye on milestones and dependencies, you update issues and action items and risk logs.
As you go up the ranks engaging stakeholders in a personal manner becomes more important.
During one of the Board meetings one of the executive came over asking why I was on the computer when she was discussing her agenda items. I quickly realized from her point of view it looked like I was not paying attention, being disrespectful. I apologies and explained that I was actually taking notes of what she was saying. And stated that going forward I would be taking notes on a paper so as not to give impression that I was playing Solitary. The next meeting the same executive gave me a notebook. Probably realizing that she might have overblown the whole situation. Because the notebook was full of Sudoku puzzles. We both laughed.
Ideally a scribe, a person taking meeting minutes, would be in a meeting. If that is not an option announce that you will be taking meeting minutes. Saving Changes...
