to think that minuting meetings is pointless?

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I work in a company secretary/operations type role for a v small charity. ALL our meetings are minuted. Board minutes - fine, that's a legal requirement. But team meetings, even very informal ones, also require minuting.

I don't object to taking minutes when they're useful but I am pretty certain absolutely no one reads them. I have suggested what might be more effective is making a simple, clear list of agreed decisions and actions but according to my colleagues no one likes having defined actions as it is too pressurised

I'm just getting a bit fed up wasting my time writing up endless minutes just for the sake of it!! AIBU?

Oh god yanbu. The only point in minutes is to get the action points.

Yanbu. I phased this out for the PA of my team because no one cares - just extra work for her.

^^ we have an action log instead.

A clear list of agreed decisions is minuting a team meeting. That's actually what it is, and is what should be happening. How weird. Yanbu OP.

Apparently before I started no one had ever suggested the concept of agreeing actions

have suggested what might be more effective is making a simple, clear list of agreed decisions and actions

The action points are the only imporant thing! YANBU

The action points, with a time line is all that is needed for Team meetings.

but according to my colleagues no one likes having defined actions as it is too pressurised

And, YANBU

Yeh a record of decisions is the output from our meetings

Basically what they want me (and our team assistant who does some of it) to do is simply write down a list of what was discussed but without intentionally highlighting actions.

We seem to have the same conversations repeatedly without ever actually agreeing next steps.

In my job once the minutes have been typed out everyone has a responsibility to read and sign that they've read them.
At the next meeting any points that needed auctioning are read out to see if they have been done or are outstanding. If tasks haven't been completed it is followed up in supervision as to why not. Usually there are perfectly valid reasons why tasks aren't done but at least it is clear why and makes people accountable for their work.