Ask the Minutes Maven
No question too basic. No board too dysfunctional. Ask away.
The board keeps asking me to change things in the minutes. How do I know who's right?
Board members are not always right about minutes. Your job is not to make everyone happy. It's to produce an accurate legal record of what the board decided.
I've been copying the same minutes format for six years. Am I doing it wrong?
Maybe. "Nobody has complained" is not the same as "this is correct." You may be faithfully reproducing a format that was never quite right to begin with.
My board doesn't want to be recorded. But without a recording the minutes take forever. What do I do?
Yes, you can change their minds. The argument they're making is about what happens to the recording afterward, not the recording itself. That's a solvable problem.
Can I use AI to take the minutes so I can actually participate in the meeting?
AI can help you significantly. It cannot replace you entirely. Not yet. And the bigger problem here isn't the technology.
Can I just use the Zoom summary as my board minutes?
No. A Zoom summary is a technology product. Board minutes are a legal document. They are not the same thing, and one cannot substitute for the other.