Managing Meetings and Minute Taking

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This training programme encompasses all aspects of meetings – from planning and chairing them to producing professionally-presented minutes and even evaluating the effectiveness and cost efficiency of meetings in your organisation. If required, this programme can be broken down into a half day on Ma

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Managing Meetings and Minute Taking

Aim:

This training programme encompasses all aspects of meetings – from planning and chairing them to producing professionally-presented minutes and even evaluating the effectiveness and cost efficiency of meetings in your organisation. If required, this programme can be broken down into a half day on Managing Meetings and a half day on Minute Taking.

Course Objectives:

  • Gain clarity on whether a meeting is or isn’t appropriate

  • Understand how to chair a meeting effectively

  • Develop ability to produce professional, accurate minutes

Course Content:

Do we really need a meeting?  Exploring alternative options to ensure that a meeting is the best use of everyone’s time

Why meetings fail – the top 8 reasons

  • Planning for the meeting – setting the 3 levels of outcome, ensuring the right people are invited, creating an effective agenda

  • Chairman’s preparation checklist

  • Meeting room layout and seating plan – where to place your allies and your trouble makers

  • The meeting in process – understanding group behaviour and dynamics

  • Key behaviour skills of the successful Chairperson

  • Rules of Order – to be followed in formal meetings

  • Dealing with difficult participants and situations

  • The Chairperson as a facilitator

  • Avoiding or resolving conflict

  • Participation, presentation and influencing skills for attendees

  • The importance of listening

  • Power struggles and hidden agendas – their effects on meetings

  • 11 sure fire ways to wreck a meeting

  • Steering the meeting towards a conclusion

  • Minutes – what to include, what to leave out

  • Sections, styles and layouts of minutes

  • Who is doing what and when

  • Headings and numbering

  • Useful words for minutes

  • Writing in the active rather than passive tense

  • Writing concisely, professionally and clearly

  • Review and follow-up – how cost effective and efficient are your meetings?  A checklist to measure their effectiveness in your organisation.

  • Portsmouth Branch

    Middle Park Way, Bondfields Cres, Portsmouth

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