Does your team write meeting minutes? At school, if anybody doing it, it's always the student’s job writing. At work, I have seen manager doing it.
Minutes are extremely important, not only for keeping a record but especially for legal memorialization for a dispute should one arise. Typically we have a designated person, especially if it won’t be recorded.
If you’re not taking minutes then you’re saying the meeting isn’t all that important to remember. When/how a team made a decision, or the factors that drove a design, or any other details get easily forgotten once you’re 2 weeks and even more so 2 months down the road. It helps drive productivity/efficiency (*cringes @ corporate bs talk *). It’s true tho. If you have minutes shared out (that are captured accurately) they’re a good reference point. What do you gain by NOT taking minutes?
If there's not an agenda, notes and action items it's not a meeting. My #1 pet peeve, I won't even accept a meeting invite unless there's an agenda.
Are you Satya?
Thank you! Even if it’s a rudimentary agenda in the body of the invite, give me something.
At my last org, we rotated roles (minute keeping, time keeper) at each meeting.