Trouble focusing during notes for diligence calls
I'm a new analyst and have been sitting on lots of diligence calls with external firms during final stages of a deal. A lot of it is very granular information and I don't fully understand a lot of the stuff they talk about, on calls that often last several hours. I try my best to take notes, but I find myself zoning out or just can't follow and then pick up later on, and I lose parts of the conversation. Any tips on how to improve at this?
unethical pro tip - record that shit
Do you just use the built in windows screen recorder? Will this not notify people over teams?
Whatever you do, do not take this advice. Being found out means you’re going to get fired.
Work smarter not harder…
But in serious I did this plenty it’s life saving at time, I was usually WFH during Covid so would just do a voice memo on phone then delete once I was done. Be careful doing it from a work computer
If you want to be above board, just lie to your VP that the client / buyer asked for the DD call to be recorded. I convinced my VP the client wanted it and he’d always ask at the beginning of the call so it was legal / fine to do.
There are a lot of ppl who have transcriber apps in my office and use those
Pretend they’re naked.
I get a lot of benefit off of making things a game so what I’d do is just try to transcribe as much as I could real time, as a typing contest. That way I could have a legible script to ask questions off later/understand in my free time and odds are someone junior on my team needed the notes for something else so it worked out.
After a year doing this job, I’ve never gotten better at taking notes during calls. Unfortunately, I have pretty bad ADHD which makes it quite difficult for me to follow along, so if any other ADHD analysts have any tips beside pills, please drop them!
Shit, same situation
Now how yall feel about all that goddamn tik tok you watch with your 15 second attention spans
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