Compiling Knowledge Nuggets from Your Meetings for Confident Decision Making

So.. many.. meetings. What do you do with the output from all of them?

It’s easy for managers to get overwhelmed with meetings. I’ve found a powerful knowledge management strategy using Obsidian that has super charged my confidence in my decision making. If you follow this process, you’ll be more organized in your thinking, make better informed decisions and maximizing the input from your team.

Unfortunately, most manager ignore their meeting minutes and miss out on this powerful strategy.

It’s hard to be organized

Most managers are reactionary to situations in front of them. That’s absolutely part of the job. Being forward looking is a key part of successful managers.

• It’s hard find those strategic ideas of where you should take you team.
• It’s hard to prioritize what ideas you should tackle.
• It’s hard to capture your team member’s ideas and organize how everything thinks about them

With a little bit of work, you can do all of the above.

Here’s how, step by step:

Create Blank Notes Of Topics You’re Thinking About

It’s important to be intentional about what you’re tackling so start by making notes/nodes of things that are top of mind so you can have a place to compile ideas you uncover around those ideas.

On one team I was managing, I discovered we had a ton of tech support requests. I created a “solving tons of support requests” as a central place to collect ideas.

Link Ideas From Your Meeting Notes

Most don’t do anything with their meeting notes after the meeting or don’t take notes at all! After your meeting, extra relevant ideas into those central idea notes.

In that tech support challenge above, as I met with people I asked what could be done. I referenced (copied) those ideas in that tech support note to keep everything together to.

Review and Summarize The Central Note

The next step is to review that central note and organize the notes and summarize. Maybe you have enough to come up with a plan to move forward.

After a few meetings, I had gold nuggets of context on that tech support issue with some really good ideas for solving it that other people had come up with.

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