Course description
Minute Taking
Minute Taking Skills Course | Classroom Based | 1-Day Training
This Minute Taking course has been designed to enable participants to understand and practise the skills needed for preparing accurate and effective Minutes of meetings, conferences and presentations.
The aim of this one-day Minute Taking training course is to provide you with effective writing and summarising tips to help you glean the relevant information from the meeting and produce professional and clear notes.
Attending this course will help you acquire the in-depth knowledge and skills required to understand the tasks involved in taking meeting minutes. Our highly expert trainers have specially designed this course to provide tips and tricks to develop minute-taking skills in individuals, which will help you become an effective Minute Taker at the workplace.
- One Day Minute Taking Course
- Expert Trainers
- Minute Taking Courses Running Across The UK
- We deliver Minute Taking skills to organisations, including businesses, charities and the public sector.
By the end of this Minute Taking course, attendees will have the skills to:
- Produce accurate, well-structured minutes and notes
- Work effectively with the chair of the meeting
- Identify and overcome listening and concentration issues
- Extract the key points and include them in the record/ minutes
- Be able to write minutes in professional written English
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
This course will benefit all individuals whose role in the workplace includes responsibility for taking and preparing Minutes.
Participants new to Minute taking will have an opportunity to gain in confidence as they develop their skills during the day.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
By the end of the course participants will have gained the following benefits:
- Developed an appreciation of the importance of preparation before the meeting
- Practised improving listening skills
- Gained an understanding of what needs to be recorded
- Practised taking down the notes
- Looked at how to produce the final professional document
Training Course Content
Preparation for the Meeting
- Administration for the meeting
- Meeting documentation
- Setting the Agenda
- Different styles of Agenda
- Preparing an Agenda
- Distributing the documentation
During the Meeting
- Identifying participants
- Listening and summarising
- Different styles of notes
Writing the Minutes
- Different styles of Minutes
- Sections of Minutes
- Writing clearly and concisely
- Decisions and actions
Action plan
- Drawing up an action plan
- Refining your technique
Course delivery details
This course runs from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm.
(Our trainers will stay at the end to answer any extra questions people may have.)
Why choose Keys Training
Over 25 years’ experience of delivering quality Microsoft & Business Skills training.
All Trainers are Microsoft Certified or equivalent.
Scheduled Public and Tailored In-house training throughout the UK.
Reviews
Average rating 5
Expenses
£245.00(per Participant)
WE PROVIDE ALL ATTENDEES WITH:
A course completion certificate for their training records
Quality reference material for future use and recapping topics learned within the training day
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The course truly exceeded my expectations and it gave me the fundamentals of minute taking in the NHS / Public Sector. The course provided me with formal training in a structure...