A recording secretary tasked with taking minutes for a board meeting always wants to get it right, but sometimes a mistake is made. Minutes serve as the official record of business transacted and ...

Meeting minutes are essential to recording the contributions people have to the actions taken by a company. Meeting minutes can also be used in a court of law as evidence in the case of a lawsuit.

Elise Keith is the co-founder of Lucid Meetings and the author of "Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization." She writes that the first five minutes of any meeting are ...