Meetings and Minute Taking Skills
Overview
The role of the Minute Taker is essential for accurate reporting of events and decisions made during meetings. Accuracy, good listening skills, and understanding meeting formats and etiquette all contribute to well written minutes.
Who Should Attend?
This course is for anyone who is required to take the minutes at meetings within their organisation.
Benefits To You & Your Organisation
Our Meetings and Minute Taking course will teach you the core skills required to efficiently compile the notes required for clear and concise minutes.
Key skills include:
Effective Meetings
- Preparation
- Ensuring a meeting is successful - what role will you play?
- Arranging the meeting, Agenda setting, Minute taker
- The meeting cycle
- Structure of a meeting
- Agenda setting
Note Taking
- Effective note taking
- Example layouts
- Mind Mapping
Attending the Meeting
- At the meeting - concerns/issues
- Common problems
- Finding out who's who/remembering
- Not understanding
- Hearing
- Arguments
- Coping with numbers and figures
Writing Minutes
- Layout of Minutes
- Example of agenda items
- Tradition style
- Factual style
- Practical Exercises
Language & Grammar
- Business English
- Punctuation
- Grammar
Comments from some of attendees:
I feel that the support I received through the course was excellent. I would recommend the course and the trainer to other people. This support has given me a boost in my confidence.
I feel more confident about my note taking
Great Venue and Trainer!