Minute Taking
- Understand the importance of meetings and recorded minutes
- Learn out to enhance your listening skills to Identify what to write down and what to leave out
- Effectively utilise tools and techniques to enable effective minute taking in online and face to face meetings
- Knowing what to do when the meetings stray from their original purpose
- How to turn your notes from the meeting into an action-oriented minute record
- How to close the meeting loop after the meeting ends
- Understand the importance of meetings and recorded minutes
- Identify what to write down and what to leave out
- Effectively utilise tools and techniques to enable effective minute making
- Knowing what to do when the meetings stray from their original purpose
- How to turn your notes from the meeting into an action-oriented minute record
- How to close the meeting loop after the meeting ends
This minute-taking course is aimed at beginners, or casual minute takers, who are required to record, compile, publish and distribute meeting minutes. This course is suitable for online or face-to-face meetings.
Online Training Prerequisites:
Participants are required to have a working computer with a microphone and speaker installed. No software needs to be installed before the training session however, we require an up-to-date web browser. For the best experience, we recommend downloading the latest Google Chrome browser.
- Why take minutes?
- What are they?
- How do they differ from a Record of Conversation?
Considerations for recording minutes manually or digitally for a variety of meeting types
Look at the five competencies: communication, writing and summarising, organising, team building and emotional intelligence
Review and discuss the preparation required, from creating an agenda to ensuring the physical or digital meeting room is prepared
Learn the skills to become a more effective listener to aid in note taking
Review the information that needs to appear in published minutes and review a variety of templates
What do you do, as the minute taker, when a meeting goes off track from the agenda?
- After the meeting – close the loop. Turn your meeting notes into minutes
- Completing the process to ensure effective minutes have been produced and circulated
There are several practical opportunities to practice taking minutes during the course
