Making Corporate Minutes and the Corporate Setting

Becoming one of those neatly dressed in corporate attires requires the right attitude, knowledge, and skills. When he is wearing coat and tie, or she is wearing a blazer and skirt, people’s first impression would always be, “This person works in a corporate setting.”


Being one of the many who works in a corporate setting, you should know the demands of your work. Whether you are an executive secretary or an administrative assistant, or the COO or CEO, you have to know the demands of your job.

That goes the same with the person who is entitled to do the corporate meeting minutes or corporation minutes or better known as corporate minutes. Usually, it’s the secretary’s job. She, as it is often filled with a woman, is expected to know the demands of her job too.

Speaking of corporate minutes, just to refresh the readers’ memory, a corporate minutes is a piece of document that provides information on what happened in a corporate meeting. This document serves as the basis for future meetings.

As mentioned earlier, anyone has to have the right attitude, knowledge, and skills to do the job. Making the corporate minutes is not an easy job. People in the corporate world that jotting down what occurred in the meeting is easy, but they’re wrong. If you too thought of that, well, you too are wrong.

It requires the right attitude as the management and those who are in the meeting will rely to the efficiency of what you do. They will rely on the information that you will give them through the minutes. Thus, the right attitudes that one has to have are being honest, trustworthy, and again being efficient and patient with the job.

Knowledge of the job and your capability to do it or your skills to do it is also important. Only someone who knows what and how it is done is the one capable of doing the job. You, of all things, have to know the purpose of what you are doing and how to present it so as to keep your job, and at the same time, being efficient on what you do.

So the next time you see someone jotting down the minutes of the meeting, trust that what he or she is doing is not easy.