Responsibilities of the Recorder/Timekeeper

Recorder:

  1. Documents the efforts of the group including summaries of decisions, action items (or assigned tasks), and deadlines;

  2. Maintains the group focus and direction;

  3. Actively clarifies the group’s progress by using strategies such as summarizing, seeking, etc.

  4. Produces written summaries.

Timekeeper: (The team facilitator may choose to delegate the timekeeper role or incorporate it with his/her duties.)

  1. Informs the group of the beginning time and ending time - with enough time for the members to begin and come to an end to the discussion

  2. Indicates when the group is using more time than available on one issue and remind them of the number of tasks and time remaining

  3. Helps the team use their time on issues that the whole team is needed