Minute Taking Courses
Award-winning, small, friendly Minute Taking courses in London, online & across the UK.
Hands-on training using real-world example for all levels from beginner to advanced.
All courses CPD certified and include 6 months post-course support.
Learn all the skills needed to effectively record and document meetings.
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Our Minute Taking Courses
One Day Minute Taking Course
CPD Certified
4.94 / 5
1 day.
Client Site Courses Available.
Live Online & Client Site.
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
This full-day training course covers all aspects of minute taking in detail.
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Organising a meeting and agenda
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Working with the chair of the meeting
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Clarifying decisions
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Understanding group dynamics
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Creating accurate, clear minutes
Download full course details- What’s the purpose of the meeting?
- Understanding agendas, formats, and attendee roles
- Clarifying your role and responsibilities
- Setting up and organising the meeting
- How to support the Chair and participants
- Meeting dynamics: who’s who and how to work with them
- Keeping time and staying focused
- Active listening: what to write and what to skip
- Structuring minutes: styles that work
- Writing clearly and concisely
- Choosing what’s essential: decisions, actions, and key points
- Making minutes user-friendly and easy to reference
- Finalising and distributing minutes efficiently
- Who needs to see what – and when
- Following up actions without overstepping
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.
Group Bookings & Private Courses
CPD Certified
4.8 / 5
Client Site Courses Available.
It's your private course, you choose..
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.
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Combined Minute Taking + Chairing Meetings
CPD Certified
4.71 / 5
1 day.
Client Site Courses Available.
It's your private course, you choose..
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
This effective meetings course combines minute taking and chairing meetings training.
Learn how to run & follow up meetings that get things done.
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Structure meetings precisely
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Generate real discussion & decisions
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Create clear, actionable minutes
- The purpose of the meeting
- The agenda
- Notifying participants/arranging the meeting
- Meeting expectations
• 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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Minute Taking FAQs
For General FAQs and Booking questions, see our FAQ Page.
Minutes of meetings have multiple uses:
- They are a permanent record of what was discussed and decided in case of future issues.
- They ensure that responsibility for agreed actions is clearly allocated.
- They allow people who did not attend the meeting to understand what was said and discussed.
- The need to document discussions means that a minute taker will often intervene to ensure that everyone is clear about what is being said improving communication.
- For legal and compliance subjects, they serve as a record that appropriate process was followed in case this is questioned in future.
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:
- Pre-meeting: How do you best prepare for a meeting, including preparing an agenda.
- The meeting: How to best take notes and ensure you are clear on what is being agreed.
- Post-meeting: How to produce the most useful minutes possible.
Delegates are welcome to bring some previous minutes that they have produced for discussion with the trainer.
Where Do Your Courses Run?
London Training Venue & Course Details
44 Southampton Buildings
London, WC2A 1AP
Tel: 0203 603 0150
London, WC2A 1AP
Tel: 0203 603 0150
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Guildford Training Venue & Course Details
Surrey Technology Centre, 40 Occam Road
Guildford, GU2 7YG
Tel: 01483 688 488
Guildford, GU2 7YG
Tel: 01483 688 488
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Online Courses
We run a full schedule of remote courses over Zoom.
We also deliver private courses over Teams, if requested.
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