Minute Taking Training

Minute Taking Training

Minute Taking Training course will enable you to understand the important role of a minute-taker as well as learn how to efficiently record all the important information discussed in any setting. You will learn key skills like deciding what should be recorded, active listening, how to create drafts and reports, organisational skills and much more.

Both formal and informal meetings are taking place every day in any organisation, but who is taking and recording the minutes from these meetings? Are accurate records of key business decisions being recorded? Who were the key decision makers? Does anyone know what happened in the meeting and what decisions were made and carried? What ideas were discussed and motioned?

Are your business units effectively implementing decisions made after the meeting?
You will learn about your own personality type as well as other personality types and how to engage others in an entirely new way that provides a path to better communication and improvedminute-taking.

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course participants will be able to:

• Recognise the importance and outcomes of minute-taking
• Identify and record action items during board meetings
• Develop skills in active listening, critical thinking, and organisation
• Understand and customise meeting agreements
• Record three types of minutes, including formal meetings, informal, and action items
• Prepare and publish minutes with perfection
• Take minutes in interactive board meetings
• Write drafts, proofread and organise minutes
• Build and maintain a minute book
• Recognise the outcome of minute-taking for a particular meeting
• Recognise the role of a minute-taker in achieving larger goals of an organisation
• Deal with common complaints and difficulties faced by minute-takers
• Perform the role with expertise using knowledge and skills

Course Outline

Improve your meeting outcomes with effective minute-taking. The Minute Taking training course will enable your business units to solve many problems and complaints associated with running meetings.

In the hands of a competent minute-taker, the skills taught in this course will enable managers and staff to effectively ‘action’ efficiently recorded meeting items.

You will also learn advanced styles of minute taking such as colour-coding and suitable methods for minute-taking in informal, formal and action meeting settings.