If you don’t know official short hand (which im
Assuming you don’t) then you need to
Come up with your own so you can take minutes quickly as people are talking. Also make your manager aware that you don’t know short hand and are worried about minute taking - they can support you and may even help you with a short hand course. Most places won’t allow you to record a meeting, that’s kinda why you are there to take notes
have the meeting agenda infront of you, number it. Use the numbers to correspond to your notes. Use peoples initials instead of their names and use abbreviations for common things that will come up - like other departments/other staff members names etc
- don’t even attempt to write complete sentences, you won’t be able to keep up. Jot down bullet points to cover the important points that are being discussed - listen out for dates/times/people names and follow up actions
- read your notes back immediately after the meeting and expand on them - if you don’t and you then go back to type them up later you’ll probably find you don’t remember parts or won’t make sense of some of what you’ve jotted down.