Minute Taking Courses

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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.

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Minutes of meetings have multiple uses:

1. They are a permanent record of what was discussed and decided in case of future issues.
2. They ensure that responsibility for agreed actions is clearly allocated.
3. They allow people who did not attend the meeting to understand what was said and discussed.
4. 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.
5. 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:

1. Pre-meeting: How do you best prepare for a meeting, including preparing an agenda.
2. The meeting: How to best take notes and ensure you are clear on what is being agreed.
3. 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.