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  • B2
  • At work
  • Check
  • 5 min

Reliable meeting notes

Situation

The situation

Decisions, actions, owners, deadlines, and nothing made up.

You work at an SME that makes metal parts near Saint-Étienne. You come out of the Monday production meeting with rough notes to turn into meeting notes for the team.

Idea 1 of 3

What meeting notes need

The decisions made, the actions (who does what, by when) and the questions still open. The rest fits in two lines of context.

Idea 2 of 3

AI fills the gaps

Rough notes have gaps: a date is missing, an owner is not named. AI tends to fill them with a plausible invention. Tell it: “If something is missing, write ‘to be confirmed’.”

Idea 3 of 3

Review before sending

Compare the write-up with your rough notes: every decision, every owner, every date. An action given to the wrong person quickly causes a misunderstanding.

Question 1 of 2

The notes do not say who is organising the training. What should the meeting notes say?

The notes do not say who is organising the training. What should the meeting notes say?
See the answer

“To be confirmed” A flagged gap is settled with one question. A gap filled with an invention creates a mistake.

Question 2 of 2

What should each action show?

What should each action show?
See the answer

Who does it and by when An action with no owner and no deadline is unlikely to get done.

Exercise

Your turn

Below the notes, replace the last line with a real request: decisions, actions with owner and deadline, and nothing made up.

Ctrl + Enter to check your request.

Checklist

  • Ask for the decisions made, to do
  • Ask who does what, to do
  • Ask for the deadlines, to do
  • Forbid inventing: “to be confirmed” if something is missing, to do

End of the lesson

Lesson complete

Key point

Decisions, who does what, by when. Anything missing stays “to be confirmed”.