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Our private courses can run online, in-person at your offices or at one of our training centres.
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Learn all the skills needed to effectively record and document meetings.
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This full-day training course covers all aspects of minute taking in detail.
This full-day training course covers all aspects of minute taking in detail.
Organising a meeting and agenda
Working with the chair of the meeting
Clarifying decisions
Understanding group dynamics
Creating accurate, clear minutes
You’ll leave with a clear plan for how to apply your new skills back at work straight away.
You don’t need any prior experience to attend this course.
This course is for anyone wanting to learn how to produce clear records of the output of meetings.
If you are not an experienced minute taker it is useful, if possible, for you to have a go at taking some minutes of a meeting or similar before you attend. It will help bring the learning to life for you.
If you have taken minutes before we would ask that you bring them along. These examples can be used as the basis of the examples for the course.
Jo has been a professional development coach and trainer for over 20 years. She is Chartered Institute of Professional Development (CIPD) certified.
She started her career in engineering before transferring to a leading pharmaceutical company. She spent 18 years there in a number of leadership and technical roles across a number of departments including HR, customer service, and training.
We also offer private training. Contact us for more details about how we can create a customised course, designed just for you and your organisation.
Where you are booking 2 or more people onto the same course we offer group discounts. Please contact us for more details.
We also offer private training. Contact us for more details about how we can create a customised course, designed just for you and your organisation.
Where you are booking 2 or more people onto the same course we offer group discounts. Please contact us for more details.
This effective meetings course combines minute taking and chairing meetings training.
Learn how to run & follow up meetings that get things done.
This effective meetings course combines minute taking and chairing meetings training.
Learn how to run & follow up meetings that get things done.
Structure meetings precisely
Generate real discussion & decisions
Create clear, actionable minutes
• Managing (Chairing) the meeting
• Meeting participants
• Roles and dynamics
• Developing listening skills and encouraging participation
• What to record – the important vs. the irrelevant
• Keeping to time
• Keeping focused
• Evaluating effectiveness
• Avoiding post meetings discussions and fall out
• Accuracy, brevity, and clarity of minutes and other follow up
• Tracking and following up on actions
• Who needs to know what?
• Achieving accuracy, brevity, and clarity
• Using the appropriate structure and style
• How to present the information to the best effect
This course was designed for complete beginners. You do not need any prior experience to attend.
This is an intensive one-day course.
It covers the key concepts of minute taking and chairing meetings and shows you how they can be combined to make meetings really effective.
For a course focused on minute taking please see: one day minute taking course.
For a course focused on chairing meetings please see: one day chairing meetings training.
Jo has been a professional development coach and trainer for over 20 years. She is Chartered Institute of Professional Development (CIPD) certified.
She started her career in engineering before transferring to a leading pharmaceutical company. She spent 18 years there in a number of leadership and technical roles across a number of departments including HR, customer service, and training.
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Minutes of meetings have multiple uses:
No. The layout of meeting minutes should be adjusted to make then as clear and helpful as possible.
Generally, minutes will start with the basics of who, what, where, when and how.
Next they record the meeting, usually in chronological order unless there is a good reason not to.
Minutes should provide a clear overview of the key parts of the meeting.
Significant items like detailed discussions, decisions, and updates should be included.
Irrelevant details like side conversations, brief interruptions and excessive detail should be ignored.
The company secretary is responsible for taking the minutes of a formal board meeting.
At other less formal meetings, the chairperson is responsible for ensuring that taking the minutes is clearly delegated to someone.
It is important to remember that all meeting attendees are responsible for ensuring the minutes are accurate and complete. They should carefully review the draft minutes and comment where they believe there are errors or omissions.
The course is very practical and includes several minute-taking exercises.
The course splits into three approximately equal parts:
Delegates are welcome to bring some previous minutes that they have produced for discussion with the trainer.
We don’t have a dress code for our courses so please come wearing whatever you are most comfortable in.
Our online courses are designed to recreate the classroom training experience as closely as possible.
These courses will still be very hands-on and practical and you should come ready to practice what you are being taught in realistic role-play scenarios.
We don’t want to be the biggest training company but are trying to be the best!
We’re proud to say that we have won the Feefo Gold Award for 9 years in a row.
We also offer a 100% money-back guarantee if you are not satisfied with your course.
Yes we do. We email you a personal certificate after the course.
We run a full schedule of remote courses over Zoom.
We also deliver private courses over Teams, if requested.
Letting us know before the course which areas you would like to focus on is very helpful.
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