The Secret to Note-taking for Busy People

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Are you leaving meetings unsure of the next steps? Transform your meeting productivity with our guide to professional note-taking! Learn a proven system to ensure clarity and action after every meeting, perfect for busy professionals who need to stay on top of their game.
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✅ What You'll Discover:
▪️ Why good note-taking is crucial for clarity post-meeting.
▪️ Common note-taking mistakes and how to avoid them.
▪️ The Quadrant Method: A revolutionary approach to organize your notes effectively.
▪️ Practical examples: See how the Quadrant Method works in real-life scenarios.
▪️ Tips for capturing important information without being overwhelmed.
▪️ The power of handwritten notes: Why it's more effective than digital note-taking.
▪️ Integrating digital tools with traditional methods for the best results.
In this video I'll share my tips for neat and efficient note taking. You'll learn an effective note-taking technique for any type of work: The quadrant method. Whether it's for your work meetings, for your consulting projects, taking notes for school or even for your own personal projects- this method works wonders. It's how I take perfect notes now for every meeting I attend.
00:00 Why You Need An Efficient Note Taking System
02:30 How to Takes Notes For Work
04:55 Take Notes By Hand
06:35 Wrap Up
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@LeilaGharani 9 месяцев назад

Get your free copy of our Cheat Sheet for proper note-taking here: pages.xelplus.com/note-taking-tips

@chriskobuthi5945 8 месяцев назад

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@kvanniekerk3792 Год назад

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 Год назад

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

@growqueen Год назад

Wow 👏 have to watch this video now. 😊

@devendraaryal8195 Месяц назад

@@LeilaGharani I am from Nepal,following your videos

@itsani07 10 месяцев назад

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.

@CaptainQueue Месяц назад

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.

@tipsytoes11 Год назад

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

@dodgecarlincila879 Год назад

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 :)

@adnanabbasi9482 Год назад

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! 👍👍👍🏿👍🏿👍👍

@evayaaasantewaa448 11 месяцев назад

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.

@liviapy10 10 месяцев назад

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!

@kekp3791 Год назад

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. 😀

@fuzzylon Год назад

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.

@IvanFreelancer Год назад

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.

@flycow69 Год назад

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 .

@NoTengoIlusiones Год назад

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

@moniqueb3432 8 месяцев назад

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.

@fitbuddybiz7381 3 месяца назад

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!

@smaaahen 7 месяцев назад

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 !!

@MrBradleykeith Год назад

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.

@gurudattkeshav Год назад

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

@ShivamRai-xo8fu Год назад

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.

@N7eptune 11 месяцев назад

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.

@bestbig2002 Год назад

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

@kpurnawan Год назад

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.

@drgeekay Год назад

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

@samanvayasrivastava559 Год назад

Crisp and to the point .. loved it

@d3vastatlon Год назад

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 месяцев назад

Wow! Thanks!

@jw_au 11 месяцев назад

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

@jpp7783 10 месяцев назад

Notability does the same thing.

@invincible1437 10 месяцев назад

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 месяцев назад

I record in class ..It's smooth

@annapenzer64 11 месяцев назад

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

@RightPhalanges Год назад

❤ 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!

@mar4kl Год назад

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 месяцев назад

Yes! 👍💫🙏🙏🌹🌹😇❤

@MargAbbottYou Год назад

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

@kroyle5328 Год назад

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.

@AmitRoy-om3tp 11 месяцев назад

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

@MhamedAliChebbah Год назад

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.

@KarlaKoebernick 10 месяцев назад

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

@jennyvinyl85 11 месяцев назад

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?

@RiverCat999 11 месяцев назад

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 месяцев назад

Opening

@hendrickkone679 9 месяцев назад

Awesome Leila , thank you. Simple strategy yet effective

@YvesAustin Год назад

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 Год назад

Hope it will be helpful, Yves!

@jjpk80 Год назад

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

@gennarocimmino Год назад

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

@vijayarjunwadkar Год назад

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 Год назад

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

@robrayborn1349 Год назад

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

@LeilaGharani Год назад

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

@sharadsrivastava1043 10 месяцев назад

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

@HeatherMajors Год назад

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 Год назад

Glad it was helpful, Heather!

@n1vca 10 месяцев назад

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 месяцев назад

Wow, thank you so much! Servus 😊

@ikennambonu3157 11 месяцев назад

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

@rextransformation7418 8 месяцев назад

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

@MrLeonGros Год назад

As always a pleasure watching tips and tricks from your RU-vid channel

@notesfromleisa-land 8 месяцев назад

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.

@tiffanydrouin2622 Год назад

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.

@motorcycleman6898 Год назад

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

@LeilaGharani Год назад

Excellent!

@DemetriusPayton Год назад

Very helpful tips. I love your practical examples.

@Ethan-mkz 8 месяцев назад

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

@vinayak3788 Год назад

Thanks for this Leila, much needed ❤

@TheCankersore 8 месяцев назад

Very insightful and sensible suggestions. Thank you!

@ianpatrick23 7 месяцев назад

Such great techniques for notetaking. Thanks!

@saugata2 11 месяцев назад

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

@awberyart5796 7 месяцев назад

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

@MalinaC Год назад

Awesome tips! Thank you Leila!❤

@rodneyspanish 7 месяцев назад

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

@AnwarHussainFaruqh 8 месяцев назад

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🌎

@ramonaneyrinck2292 Год назад

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.

@saileshmurali Год назад

Sounds great, thanks for sharing, will try it out

@eleazartube 7 месяцев назад

Awesome technique thank you very much Leila

@strll3048 7 месяцев назад

So brilliant! Thank you.

@johnhaley9706 11 месяцев назад

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.

@AndyBhopal 10 месяцев назад

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 месяцев назад

Many thanks for your feedback!

@jego207 Год назад

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

@DOJ77 Год назад

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

@witchmorrow 10 месяцев назад

Really good idea! Will be using this for sure

@louisd95714 Год назад

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

@abdulsr.8075 Год назад

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

@ifoundu3406 Год назад

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.

@chaudharyvikas6912 Год назад

Very Good Tips for taking notes. Thanks Leilla

@MrDinglebob Год назад

Brilliantly simple!

@ckelly0811 Год назад

this is a game changer for me! Thank you.

@karhukivi Год назад

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 Год назад

100%

@michaeljoseph8554 Год назад

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

@marcel_sala Год назад

Thank you, very helpful!

@alexcampion8529 6 месяцев назад

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.

@karthickravichandran1355 Год назад

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...😊

@saurabhpathak3527 9 месяцев назад

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

@jamesfreedman2846 10 месяцев назад

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

@RichardDurishin Год назад

Great help. Thanks.

@mohdotnet Год назад

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

@LeilaGharani 11 месяцев назад

Our pleasure!

@WMills-xd3cd Год назад

Leila you are just the best thank you!

@gauravpanse9171 8 месяцев назад

Thanks Leila. This is super useful.

@donaldbanda3578 Год назад

Excellent tips .. thank you so much

@sherrycohen1824 Год назад

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.

@ahmadkaddoura7060 7 месяцев назад

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

@konstantinosbarlas5698 Год назад

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!