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@chriskobuthi5945

8 ай бұрын

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Watched this video last night. Today I sat in a 4 hour workshop and applied this technique. It really works. I never logged into my notebook once and got the entire meeting captured on one A4 page. I am a senior business analyst and usually I'd have pages and pages of notes. Now everything is concise, to the point and structured. Hours later, while writing this i can still recall exactly what needs to be done, what decisions were made and what questions need answering. Thank you for sharing the pearl of wisdom.

@LeilaGharani

Жыл бұрын

That's great to hear! Makes me happy you could apply it directly at work.

@growqueen

Жыл бұрын

Wow 👏 have to watch this video now. 😊

@devendraaryal8195

Ай бұрын

@@LeilaGharani I am from Nepal,following your videos

A recent practice that I am following is to screenshot the meeting video. People and their names appear on the screenshot. Save this with your meeting notes. It helps to remember the peoples faces, names and content.

I just retired after a 45 year communications career in several large corporations. After viewing your excellent system, I see how my own note-taking with far too much detail was actually a limiting factor for recalling what was decided in all those meetings. Where were you 30-40 years ago! Salute! PS: If I were a manager, I would provide this template to the entire employee team. I can see how this system could actually reduce meeting time by getting to the point, and concluding the meeting when everyone is clear on what happens next.

This is gold! I'm a paralegal but note-taking is a weakness! I know I'm supposed to be good at it as a paralegal. I have a meeting first thing on Monday and I've been strategising what/how so I can keep up with notes. Sometimes I also just blank out if the discussion gets boring LOL

I'm always learning from you, Leila. Can't wait for Monday! I'm one of those that doesn't take notes and just rely on the email that sent out after meetings. Thanks for this :)

This video shows "the real experience". You described the problems as accurately that only people whose job is involve meetings so often can understand your viewpoint. 100 marks for you! 👍👍👍🏿👍🏿👍👍

Thank you for this! And as someone who takes meeting notes with pen and paper, I especially appreciate your last bit of advice. I just sent a link to this video to a couple of former co-workers who I am mentoring.

I've been in the corporate world for 10 years and have never heard this before. Thank you, so much. This will definitely change my meetings. Thanks from Brazil!

This video is super. Gold advices! I thought I was good at identifying the key points in a meeting, but apparently organizing the notes is the most important thing. Thank you Leila for this valuable practical tip from you! I will surely use it in my next appointment. 😀

Thanks for another great video. I find it very difficult not to write everything down and my writing is bad too - so I try to review my notes as soon as I can afterwards and annotate them with a different colour (green) - particularly writing clearly any words that I won't be able to figure out later on. I like the quadrant idea, but my meetings usually run to several pages of A5 so what I usually do is mark my actions with a star in the right margin, actions for others with a square in the right margin. General notes I write at the bottom or right of the page with a line drawn around them. Another tip - is to write down the names of the attendees on the page in advance if I can (or else while waiting for them to turn up ) and I write their initials - so during the meeting I only have to write their initials in my notes not their full names. I also tick their names off as they turn up so I have a record of who was there and who didn't show up and it helps me keep track of who is who.

I find this Quadrant Method useful not only after meeting, but also before the meeting starts. It is because I can plan what are going to be discussed. It saves so much time. Thanks Leila.

Thank you for the tips and I honestly was able to read all your notes. I remember the old days when the words Shorthand and Steno were must have talents to be able to work as a C-Level assistant to report directly to the CEO. By the way I just became a sub thinking you’re great at what you do then when I checked they are 2.3 millions of us who think you’re doing a great job. Thanks for your generous content .

As a hardcore excel user I love how this channel forks to other areas. Thank you Leila. Great fan.

Oh the wishes of hindsight! You will help me tremendously be efficient. I studied social work which required detailed blow by blow notetaking. Now I have the strategy to move from the extreme to the productive.

Good morning Leila! Thank you so much for this tutorial. Your approach and experience with your contact totally resonated with me. I have had the same thing happen numerous times to me and I needed the pattern to cease! I am excited to try the tips learned today AND to check out the rest of your content. Thank you so much!

The situation you described in this video is the story of my life and I’m so happy I just reached your video ! Thank you for sharing !!

Well the quadrant method is what I use, but on two open pages of an A4 book, each page divided into two. And yes, note taking by hand enforces memory retention.

The Quadrant method is my most brilliant lesson learnt yet in 2023. Thank you Leila 👍

A very powerful tip that just came to my mind. As soon as you join an organization, quickly assess what kinds of workloads are recurring which you will have to do on a daily or weekly basis, and quickly brainstorm your mind to find ways to make to reduce manual efforts and create a system to achieve quality results with sufficient output. Now because this is a recurring task, you don't need to worry about it once you repeat the process few times. Infact, following this strategy, you will save so much of brain capacity to learn and focus on others things.

Such a good tip. I like it. Your writing is fine and glad to hear there is another person having trouble remembering names 😊 I did find in the past, for lectures, rewriting my comprehensive notes in an organised way was invaluable but for meetings this seems to be the way to go.

She is so likeable and speaks so clear and understandable! Just nice to listen to her.

Thanks for the secret tip Leila.. I used to take notes everything in a meeting, I believe this will be more concise and powerful for To Do lists and assigning tasks for my team.

Leila - as always - with an excellent, useful, and crystal-clear video that will help many of us! Thank you! 🙏🙏

Crisp and to the point .. loved it

Another tip: using OneNote's recording feature will sync to what you wrote. So if you record the meeting while taking notes but can't exactly remember some details about something you wrote, just click the play button next to it to hear that part of the meeting!

@Weirtoe

11 ай бұрын

Wow! Thanks!

@jw_au

11 ай бұрын

For some reason this never seems to work for me… clearly an end user issue 😂

@jpp7783

10 ай бұрын

Notability does the same thing.

@invincible1437

10 ай бұрын

That’s what I was looking for just to mention the same thing that there should be recording as well but someone already mentioned here. Good job!

@MauiXoXo

10 ай бұрын

I record in class ..It's smooth

Fabulous presentation- this method has really transformed my notes in meetings.

❤ the tips. I already use the handwriting part as I agree that it helps me to retain the info. ❤the quadrant! Going to start doing this!

OMG, this video is gold to anyone who has to take notes! If only someone like you had been around to show me these techniques when I was in high school or college, I bet I could have been a straight A student. As it is, this will help me when I have meetings with my consulting clients, and I plan to try to get my teenage daughter to watch this video as well. Thank you so much for making it.

@seemasethi2047

7 ай бұрын

Yes! 👍💫🙏🙏🌹🌹😇❤

Wow, that's an eye-opener!! Thank you so much, gonna try that at my next choir & band meetings etc!!

Great video really helpful. I needed a way to make better notes. I will go away and try this method and not the old school note taking everything. Thanks.

You are a rockstar in teaching all these helpful tips, Leila. Thanks a lot. Immensely helpful!

Thanks Leila for your right to the point method. I really appreciate and think that such method should be adapted in each situation, particulary when techniques notes have to be taken. See u soon.

Great tips! I find it's also worth capturing decisions in their own section and reviewing before closing the meeting.

Excellent! You can also use the quadrants as criteria to determine (1) Necessity: ¿is the meeting truly necessary? (2) Attendees: ¿who really needs to participate? And (3) Duration: considering the discussion points ¿how much time we anticipate for the meeting?

Thanks, Leila This is a great approach for information gathering. I used to record meetings whenever possible and then check against my notes and follow-up for clarification. Your approach is much more streamlined. Thanks very much.

@lisacottrell7685

11 ай бұрын

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Awesome Leila , thank you. Simple strategy yet effective

Thank you Leila for sharing this tip. Guilty as charged!! I have wandered all around the map from no note-taking, poor note-taking, furious note-taking, and somewhat decent note-taking, but never great note-taking!! I've always admired people who would have the ability to capture key take-aways in succinct terms regardless of whether they would take notes or not. I will give your method a try!

@LeilaGharani

Жыл бұрын

Hope it will be helpful, Yves!

Golden words as always. I'll start applying them right away!!!

You did really well. Congratulations. Absolutely interesting these tips of yours. Thank you.

Thank you Leila! I really appreciate your passion, enthusiasm and determination to bring knowledge to so many of us on a variety of subjects consistently and repeatedly! It's not easy to keep the audience interested and curious over long time, but you have achieved it and I am sure you will maintain it! All the very best! 😊👍

@LeilaGharani

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, Vijay! I really appreciate your continued support.

Thank you Leila. I really needed this one and plan on putting it into place immediately. No more lost notes or thoughts.

@LeilaGharani

Жыл бұрын

Hope it helps, Rob! Let us know how it went.

Thanks for sharing these tips. Manually writing also helps in editing, highlighting imp points, drawing shapes, connectors etc. , so I prefer taking notes on paper in my meetings. Please keep sharing videos on such day to day topics. Thanks

Awesome video. I was doing a little of what this vide describes but not all 4 quadrants. This provided more ideas to level up. Thank you Leila and Teams for putting this together.

@LeilaGharani

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful, Heather!

I am really impressed all the time ... I can take any video of yours with a random pick and you surprise me each time with a very practical and well distilled approach, great knowledge and what impresses me the most, there is always an element of total honesty towards yourself and your own struggles that makes it just so very relatable. Absolutely brilliant - I virtually bow in front of you. Best regards from another IT nerd in Munich, Germany.

@LeilaGharani

10 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you so much! Servus 😊

Very helpful. I’m adopting this method for all my meetings from now on

Thanks, will try the Quadrant Method in the workshop (yes, I'm a machinist) whenever I've to learn a new machine.

As always a pleasure watching tips and tricks from your KZread channel

I would add, that good meeting planning coupled with well run leadership/participation creates the structure of outlining the objective, codifying the feedback from participants informing the decision making, do the 'discuss, debate, decide' stuff, and identifying next steps, who will do and when they will report back.

I do something similar except I write in a list format but leave a margin to the left and put abbreviated labels in the margin for what I had written down, or I color code it with highlighters. I know if I were to section it up like this I would run out of writing space in a section, usually questions and/or tasks. Margin labels/flags typically look like this: "M" usually stands for "me" when it's something I need to do, "Q" is question, "*" is an important point, "Q*" is an important question, if someone else or another's company's representative needs to follow up or be asked a question I'll use their initials or the company's initials, general notes I leave unlabeled. Color codes can vary by project/meeting.

Thanks Leila. I will try this, but slightly adapted - will combine the To-Dos and have a separate quadrant for Decisions made.

@LeilaGharani

Жыл бұрын

Excellent!

Very helpful tips. I love your practical examples.

Dear Leila, your channel is one the ones I would suggest to all my fellow team members and friends. great job.

Thanks for this Leila, much needed ❤

Very insightful and sensible suggestions. Thank you!

Such great techniques for notetaking. Thanks!

Once again a very interesting, insightful and very helpful video. Thanks a lot again Leila.

I love your videos! I stumbled upon you by accident but love your content. Keep the great advice coming.

Awesome tips! Thank you Leila!❤

One word: Amazing! Thank you for sharing this awesome technique!

Dear Leila , you are so greatly helpful, God bless you and your team / family ! The topics you choose are very practically helpful ! Thank you so much ✨✨🙏🙏😊😊🙏🙏🙏🙏 Anwar Faruqh, London, UK, Mother Earth🌎

Wow! I’m exactly like you! I really struggle to manage in person paper notes and wanting to use digital. I really need to learn to use some of this technology. I had no idea that feature about one note.

Sounds great, thanks for sharing, will try it out

Awesome technique thank you very much Leila

So brilliant! Thank you.

An excellent idea, I think, for most corporate type meetings where there will be owners with deliverables. I am struggling with applying this to a college course, for example. The syllabus provides the framework and deliverables - of which you own all.

Hi Leila, Your videos are always a treat to watch. Just my two cents: I tend to be in meetings with a large number of people, quite often via Teams or other virtual channels. I add the location, date, attendees and Decision items in separate sections. I can type without seeing the keyboard, hence do not have to worry about speed. I always tell my team members to learn typing so that the visual barrier of the laptop does not pose a problem. Trust this helps you too!

@LeilaGharani

10 ай бұрын

Many thanks for your feedback!

This is great! I never had a system before, just a series of checklists.

Great video and thank you for sharing. I didn’t understand what one note was for.

Really good idea! Will be using this for sure

Thanks you for the note taking suggestions. I was waiting for you to mention OneNote. I find it to be an excellent note taker.

Thank God for studying to take notes at the college. Learned everything at that time and been doing it till now 😎

If someone is capable to write everything down that is a great skill which many can't do. You can always summarize/divide later because you have everything you need.

Very Good Tips for taking notes. Thanks Leilla

Brilliantly simple!

this is a game changer for me! Thank you.

Excellent as always, Leila, thank you! I will organise my note-taking along these lines instead of just writing them in a column as I usually do. Psychologists have known for a long time that writing notes in script (as opposed to block capitals) involves both sides of the brain and increases the likelihood of the idea becoming embedded in memory. I regularly see students using laptops to type their notes - OK, it keeps a neat copy but when asked they don't seem to remember the content. It seems as if the brain is too busy with the process of typing and is not moving the content into longer-term memory.

@RL11111

Жыл бұрын

100%

@michaeljoseph8554

Жыл бұрын

I would just try to focus on what’s effective. Explaining why something is not effective is not worth your time.

Thank you, very helpful!

I find using a 4 coluur pen and assigning the same catergories as you discussed to a different colour also works well, obviously this works best on lined paper, and I leave spaces under the questions for the answer.

As usual...Your videos is amazing informative make us to more smart as professional n personal.. looking more as such used corporate life..kudoos to you n your team...😊

Thank you ma'am for sharing such a nice systematic trick to take notes fastly. I'm facing same problem like you... So thanks again

Thanks. Amazing quadrants seems like great idea. I'll try it.

Great help. Thanks.

Best advice ever for meetings . Thank you for sharing this.

@LeilaGharani

11 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

Leila you are just the best thank you!

Thanks Leila. This is super useful.

Excellent tips .. thank you so much

This makes so much sense. Do you have any ideas how to adapt this for middle school and high school students? I have a son with ADHD and dyslexia. Add to that the fact that he doesn't like schoolwork and homework. Between all these problems, he doesn't do well in school. That said, he wants to be an engineer or coder, so I need to help him find a way to understand and retain things he learns. I've made math cheat sheets on Excel to help him remember how to divide fractions, or whatever, in simplest terms and steps so he doesn't feel overwhelmed. I'd appreciate any suggestions you may have.

thank Leila for this important video 👍🏻I liked the Quadrant method..it's really an ultimate note taking tip

Very nice tips. Everything you say make perfect sense and I will start implementing Quadrant method from today! I only disagree with the part that you propose to take notes by hand. I get it, but I don't think it will work for me. I'll give it a try though. Anyway though, not everything works for everyone! Keep up the good work! Thanks!

Great tips Leila. I loved the "me, alvin, glasses, blue shirt". Thank you for sharing 👏👏👏👏😍

Awesome tip. Have been struggling wiht meeting notes for decades. Will try this out!

@LeilaGharani

Жыл бұрын

Hope it will be helpful, Jakob!

Thank you, this indeed a great feedback.

Great video & content. I'll give this a try.

Stunning. thanks

It was really useful. Thanks

This is great, tkanki you!

Wow really marvellous & contemporary

Absolutely fantastic! Thanks for the quadrants method ✅

@LeilaGharani

Жыл бұрын

You're so welcome!

Terrific video, thanks very much. The quadrant system is a great ides