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<blockquote data-quote="Andrei Radu" data-source="post: 212452" data-attributes="member: 36777"><p>Glad to help [USER=32451]@saj2002[/USER] ! For resources for an attendance note exercise, please see the post I made just above when responding to [USER=34872]@SamiyaJ[/USER] . I have never completed this type of exercise so my input here is limited. That said, I have sat and taken minutes together with a trainee during a VS and I can say one of the most difficult aspects of it was deciding what is relevant and what was not when taking your notes. As you will likely be feeling anxious about it, you will likely want to err on the side of caution, so the natural tendency will be to include too much information. This is problematic in that it can make your attendance note look less organized and your core points less clear than they should have been. At the same time, if you try to constantly note everything down this will limit your capacity to pay attention to the meeting itself, which will make it even more difficult to differentiate what is relevant from what is not. Thus, my advice would be to prepare by doing mock attendance notes (you can probably find videos to base this on online) and constantly try to find the right balance between including too much or too little information. At the same time, this should help with identifying the kinds of formats you can use to organize the notes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andrei Radu, post: 212452, member: 36777"] Glad to help [USER=32451]@saj2002[/USER] ! For resources for an attendance note exercise, please see the post I made just above when responding to [USER=34872]@SamiyaJ[/USER] . I have never completed this type of exercise so my input here is limited. That said, I have sat and taken minutes together with a trainee during a VS and I can say one of the most difficult aspects of it was deciding what is relevant and what was not when taking your notes. As you will likely be feeling anxious about it, you will likely want to err on the side of caution, so the natural tendency will be to include too much information. This is problematic in that it can make your attendance note look less organized and your core points less clear than they should have been. At the same time, if you try to constantly note everything down this will limit your capacity to pay attention to the meeting itself, which will make it even more difficult to differentiate what is relevant from what is not. Thus, my advice would be to prepare by doing mock attendance notes (you can probably find videos to base this on online) and constantly try to find the right balance between including too much or too little information. At the same time, this should help with identifying the kinds of formats you can use to organize the notes. [/QUOTE]
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