Meeting Notes
Currently drafting meeting notes. Not an easy thing and something the Hamish (boss) thinks is essential to good writing development. I used to be KAK at them (emphasis intended, KAK!) but with steady criticizm from the Hamish (I mean guidence) I'm better.
They are tough because you have to get absolutely everything down during the meeting, so there is no eye contact, just mad writing. If you don't understand something technical you have to find a way to make a note to ask the Hamish later. You can't worry about it, you just have to keep going.
Meeting ended, you have to come back to the office and arrange the meeting notes into themes. It's like a puzzle of information that you need to put together because, inevitably, the conversation jumped around a little.
The you have to go away and have a break because you're probably very stressed out and you need to give the notes some space (blogging is a good break option).
Space achieved, you have to draft the separate themes into coherent blocks. Then you have to assess all the information and what it is the client is going to have on paper, from us, where the ATO could read it.
Then you have to write it, well. And the Hamish is not your average breed of senior manager at PwC. The man is like Vetinari. Sometimes... he uses irony.
Did I mention that these particular clients were Japanese and hence incredibly detail oriented so it is doubly important to have every point discussed at the meeting in the notes? Oh? well, that too.
(Still don't quite have the bow- exchange business cards-shake hands all at once thing right)
They are tough because you have to get absolutely everything down during the meeting, so there is no eye contact, just mad writing. If you don't understand something technical you have to find a way to make a note to ask the Hamish later. You can't worry about it, you just have to keep going.
Meeting ended, you have to come back to the office and arrange the meeting notes into themes. It's like a puzzle of information that you need to put together because, inevitably, the conversation jumped around a little.
The you have to go away and have a break because you're probably very stressed out and you need to give the notes some space (blogging is a good break option).
Space achieved, you have to draft the separate themes into coherent blocks. Then you have to assess all the information and what it is the client is going to have on paper, from us, where the ATO could read it.
Then you have to write it, well. And the Hamish is not your average breed of senior manager at PwC. The man is like Vetinari. Sometimes... he uses irony.
Did I mention that these particular clients were Japanese and hence incredibly detail oriented so it is doubly important to have every point discussed at the meeting in the notes? Oh? well, that too.
(Still don't quite have the bow- exchange business cards-shake hands all at once thing right)
posted by Kait at 3:53 pm
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