50 verbs to spice up your meeting minutes

Updated September 17, 2019

If you find yourself repeating the same words over and over when you take meeting minutes, you’re not alone. Good words for minute taking is often a top challenge for those who own the responsibility of taking minutes.

Executive Assistant Nickey Christmas, who blogs all things PA, EA and VA related on her Practically Perfect PA blog, offers a good list of verbs “that you can slot into the meeting minutes as and when you need them.” Here’s her list:

• Acknowledged/Agreed On
• Agreed to
• Announced
• Arranged
• Asked for
• Asserted
• Assured
• Believed
• Brought up
• Complained
• Confirmed
• Decided
• Declared
• Described
• Detailed
• Discussed
• Displayed
• Emphasized
• Explained
• Expressed
• Guaranteed
• Identified
• Implemented
• Informed
• Listed/Maintained
• Mentioned
• Noted
• Observed
• Perceived
• Predicted
• Presented
• Promised
• Proposed
• Recommended
• Remarked
• Reported
• Requested
• Reviewing
• Said
• Settled
• Showed
• Specified
• Stated
• Stressed
• Suggested
• Summarized
• Understood
• Worked on