This course is designed to give you guidelines and essential skills to help you write clear and effective notes and minutes for meetings.
Minutes And Agendas
This course is designed to give you guidelines and essential skills to help you write clear and effective notes and minutes for meetings.
More than that, this workshop will explore the ways in which you can become a more effective meetings administrator, and support your Chair more productively. As with all our courses, all the learning is intensely practical.
As a result of attending this course, participants will be able to:
Programme
Helping to make meetings work
The need for effective minutes and agendas
The three golden rules of effective writing
What are minutes?
How minutes are used
Producing minutes that work
Preparing to write minutes
Understanding the content of the meeting
Liaising with the Chair
How agendas work
Key features of a clear agenda
Improving agendas: content, sequence, responsibilities, timings
Taking the minutes
Active listening
What to note down?
Intervening to clarify understanding
Summarising from your notes
Checking points for action
Writing the minutes
Constructing a minute
Emphasising action points
Editing the minutes
Paragraphs and sentences
Choosing words wisely
Action session
Why choose Yellowday?
Yellowday provides organisations with high quality, effective training to enhance individual, team and overall business performance.
If you are looking for a good quality, reliable training service that will inform, inspire and motivate your people, then Yellowday can help.
We will take the time to understand your organisation and what you need from your training – and we’ll deliver effective training sessions that will help you achieve real results.
Here are some of the benefits our customers enjoy:
A reliable, personal and prompt service – from enquiry to delivery and beyond!
Working with a team of enthusiastic, inspiring and motivating business professionals with many years’ experience in delivering high quality training solutions
A fair pricing strategy for both in-house training and discounted open scheduled courses helps customers get the most from their training budget
A free outsourcing service – if you are short on time or resource, let us help – Yellowday has an extensive network of training partners so we are able to source a wide variety of training course subjects quickly and at competitive prices
Training needs analysis and tailoring the training to meet your needs – all provided at no extra charge (unless substantial time to carry out the work is required!)
Help with the administration at no extra charge – we are happy to help with the logistics, from organising the training venue to sending out course joining instructions
Free training evaluation summary – helping you measure your return on investment and recommending further possible areas for development
Based in Hampshire we are centrally located and are happy to work with clients across the UK and Europe
Our trainers
Enjoyable training with an experienced practitioner are two of the key ingredients needed for effective training.
When you work with Yellowday’s training consultants you work with current practitioners of all the subjects they deliver. With many years business experience working at all levels, our trainers bring a wealth of experience to bear on the issues you face in your organisation.
Our trainers have extensive experience delivering training across a broad range of public and private sector organisations. They specialise in the design and delivery of business training and coaching programmes.
All with unique training styles, they are great communicators and have lively, enthusiastic, flexible approaches that encourage and maintain interest.
Everyone at Yellowday is focused on helping people achieve their potential and realise their purpose!
All sessions will include the chance to review and update the PDP. Then this particular day will address general communications skills. This will include establishing the value of communication, things that go wrong, how to improve and develop communication ability.
You can retake this assessment three times. If, after the third time, you have not passed the assignment, we will be unable to issue you with a certificate of completion.
This is for everyone of all abilities and interests so all you need is a phone with a camera in it, but feel free to bring a proper camera if you have one. This 8 week program will involve 4 sessions of exploring and taking photos across Galashiels; and the other 4 weeks will involve us meeting for
Whether it’s writing an e-mail that will get read, making a difficult telephone call or getting your point across in a meeting or presentation, good communication skills are even more essential in today’s organisation, where time is money that none of us can afford to waste.
This essential workshop offers the tools and techniques to improve your communication skills and help clarify what others are saying. You’ll master listening and questioning techniques to become an accomplished communicator helping to achieve your common goals on site.
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