The Scribe Needs to...

Some things that the facilitating scribe needs to do...

• Understand the process being used
  
• Have a facilitator's mindset
• Take down information in an organized fashion
  
• Take down information so the room can follow it
• Know how to capture, distill, and organize
• Be active, effective, and visible to the group
• Have the knowledge base and the experience base
• Be accurate, useful, visually evocative, and meaningful
• Have the ability to milk the information and pull out the essence
• Not be right all of the time, but close to right most of the time
• Have a servant's attitude to change what has been captured
• Be able to switch places with the lead facilitator
  

As always, comments welcome...