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It explains what a meeting is and outlines three main meeting types, including AGM, Branch Meetings, and BEC meetings. The guide details how to create an effective meeting agenda, offers an agenda sample, and shows how to write informal and formal meeting minutes with a legally reliable structure covering motions, votes, next steps, quorum, and adjournment. It emphasizes objective recording, clear language, and timely write-up after the meeting.","MACUA & WAMUA – ADVISORY OFFICE  \n6 2 Ju ta Street ,  \nBraam fontein , 2 0 00  \nTelephone: + 2 7 (0 ) 10 0 0 7 21 36  \n[Website: www. macua. org. za](Website: www. macua. org. za)  \nMEETING MINUTES Guide  \nWe look at...  \n• What is the meeting, types and purpose to conduct a meeting?  \n• Meeting Agenda  \n• Meeting minutes: how to write good informal and formal minutes  \n• Templates: Agenda and meeting minutes  \nIE J Offices , 3 rd Floor,  \nWhat is a meeting?  \nA meeting is an event in which a group of people come together to discuss things or make decisions.  \nTypes  \nMACUA WAMUA have three major meetings under the Branch Development Guide, Operational Overview:  \n• Annual General Meeting “AGM” – occur after 18 months, new leaderships elections and annual reports from local, provincial and national structures.  \n• Branch Meeting – Quarterly meetings, with all branch members present in the meeting  \n• Branch Executive meetings “BEC” – recommended to occur twice a month, planning and implementation body of the branch.  \no The six general types of BEC meetings:  \n▪ Status Update Meetings.  \n▪ Information Sharing Meetings.  \n▪ Decision Making Meetings.  \n▪ Problem Solving Meetings.  \n▪ Innovation Meetings.  \n▪ Team Building Meetings.  \nMeeting Agenda  \nWhat is an agenda?  \nCreated before a meeting begins, an agenda is a list of meeting activities and discussions that will be covered in your meeting. They are laid out in order, often as a list or set of bullet points. An effective meeting agenda might be a very basic list of topics, but it can also be a more complex document. Exactly how much detail to include depends on the type of meeting you are having, and how organized you want tobe.  \nA quick one-topic huddle may require no agenda at all, whereas an All-Hands meeting should be carefully planned to maximize the team's time together. Agendas are notably different from meeting notes, which typically begin with the agenda, but are filled in with more information about what took place during the meeting—such as decisions and next steps.  \nHow do you create a meeting agenda?  \nGreat meetings happen because the meeting is necessary to accomplish an important goal. The purpose of the meeting must be well-defined before a leader can decide who needs to be in a meeting and how it will run. Meeting agendas accomplish exactly that, and much more, serving as a team preparation tool before the meeting, and a guide during it.  \nAn effective meeting agenda clearly states meeting goals and discussion topics. It is written in a way that helps team members get on the same page, before, during, and after the meeting, providing all necessary information to set the team up for success.  \nFor an effective meeting agenda, follow these steps:  \n1. Prepare your agenda before the meeting; at least 3 or 2 days in advance.  \n2. Clearly define the goal of the meeting so everyone knows why they are there.  \n3. Prioritize agenda items based on importance.  \n4. List discussion topics as questions that need to be answered.  \n5. Allow reasonable amounts of time for each topic.  \n6. Include necessary background info for decisions to be made.  \n7. Share the agenda with attendees so they can have input and show up prepared.  \n8. 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