Office English / Writing notes

How good are you at writing notes in a meeting?

Personally, I'm really bad at doing it. I am concentrating on the conversation and so I don't really remember to make good notes. And then when I look at them afterwards, they don't make sense.

I think good notes in meetings have to be short. You don't want to write every single word.

Today we'll be talking about making and sharing written notes.

Hello and welcome to Office English from BBC Learning English. Your podcast guide to the world of work. I'm Pippa.

And I'm Phil. You can read along with this podcast using the subtitles and transcript on our website. That's bbclearningenglish.com.

So, Phil, we've just heard from our Learning English colleagues about how they take notes from meetings. Are you good at taking notes?

Um, I think I'm quite good at taking notes, but I'm not great at taking notes that anyone else can understand.

I see.

And I'm not always very good at doing anything with the notes that I take.