So here's the other thing that all meetings need, but no one wants to do....have notes taken.  Long gone are the days when there's a "secretary," (even the term is no longer used,) who attends all meetings to take notes. And that's precisely why someone has to take on that responsibly each and every time. Call the person the scribe or whatever you like. They are vital  and they are hard to do and should be highly valued. Meeting notes are crucial to help everyone remember what was discussed and decided, we know that, but how many times have you sat in meetings where the designated note taker is so busy taking notes they can't participate and then they are either distributed too late or not distributed at all. It's a problem. So far be it from me to bring the problem up without a solution. So this week I have a suggestion that yes, is tech in nature. One way to get around this problem is to use a program such as minutes.io, which helps you capture your meetings easily and make notes available to everyone without delay.  It's free and you don't need to be connected to the Internet during the meeting to use it. Two other note taking tools that will help you simplify your meeting process are OneNote by Microsoft and Less Meeting. They are worth checking into. I tend to use OneNote, because it was on my first Windows tablet and I became familiar with it.

Let me know if you have other meeting tips or horrors and we'll add to this topic, which like time management will never be conquered, but is a worth continuing fight.

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