Power of 1 Minute Summary

Every part of our life is consumed by media and information. And our professional life is filled with meetings that enhance our collaboration, and move the needle forward for different aspects of projects. Whether these are work related or outside of work, these meetings eventually would take considerable amount of our professional time. 

This means how we focus to summarize cleanly our ideas and work, depends on our ability to distill thoughts from multiple people and projects into actionable next steps. In many times we have trouble working on next steps because of lack of clarity from our meetings. 

This is where power of 1 minute summary comes to help.  

One defining part for us as stakeholders would be to write the meeting in 1 minute summary. Put a time clock for a minute and summarize the meeting minutes into actionable pieces. This time should be limited to 1 minute. The reason being that, this particular technique forces us to think and write only the most relevant part of that meeting removing many times all the fluff that could migrate into the minutes. 

Key to our productivity in life is to build strong work habits that drive us to deliver actionable results. It is also important to use this summary as starting point for our next meetings as a way to ground everyone. 

Our capability to work efficiently originates from our capability to manage our work. This happens when we are able to streamline our thoughts and be able to act upon it. Hence, the power of 1 minute summary is that it emphasizes us to build those strong actionable work points whether be it at work or outside of our mainstream work.