Practice: create a meeting follow-up note
Unit ID: AIT-M05-U05 Estimated active time: 15-20 minutes
The main idea
The final product should be useful and reviewable.
Useful means a reader knows what to do. Reviewable means someone who was in the room can check it against what happened.
Why this matters
A follow-up note becomes the record. Anything it states confidently will be treated as agreed, including the parts that were not.
Safe example
Safe sample notes become summary, actions, questions, and next step.
Four sections, with the open questions kept as questions rather than resolved into statements.
Better working habit
Keep unclear items visible instead of hiding them.
An "open questions" section is what stops uncertainty being smoothed into the summary above it.
What to watch for
Do not make a follow-up note sound more certain than the notes support.
Confidence in a record is not neutral. It removes the reader's reason to check.
Mini practice
Create a meeting follow-up from safe sample notes.
Then give it to someone who was in the room and ask what it got wrong.
Check yourself
Before moving on, answer:
- Would someone who was in the room recognise this record?
- Are the open questions still questions?
- Does anything here sound more settled than it was?