After a meeting or chat, it’s often useful to document the agreed actions. This gives everyone clarity on next steps. It’s also a useful audit trail for us.
Here’s a follow-up email that works well…
Subject: Our actions following today’s meeting. Please can you…
Dear (Name)
I enjoyed our meeting.
As promised, this email confirms the actions we agreed.
My actions:
Yours:
If I’ve missed anything, please let me know.
As agreed, we’ll meet again at (time) on (date), to finalise our next steps.
This wording works well because:
- The title engages – “please can you…” encourages them to open the email – they want to see what the second half of the sentence is
- The wording is very joint – “our meeting” and so on
- The word “agreed” reinforces we’ve agreed things
- We’ve both got actions – so it’s joint and fair
- You put your actions before theirs
- You’ve documented when you’re meeting again. So things happen with pace
Most of all: it’s better than NOT sending one. That makes things go too slowly. Or not at all.
Action Point
Create a standard follow-up email (or just use this one). You can then use it after every meeting – a quick way to get more done.