Minute Taking: How to take meeting minutes to make meetings successful
Gain the skills for Minute Taking concise and with a purpose to make your Meetings productive and successful. This Minute Taking course will help you overcome communication barriers as well as help you reach your goals during meetings. This Minute Taking Online course covers a range of different modules all designed to take you through the course step-by-step, so you can learn the art of effective minute taking.
What you’ll learn
- Demonstrate what makes good meeting minutes and the need for accuracy of reporting.
- Understand in depth what minute taking is, why it is important for ensuring the success of business meetings, and what the minute taker’s role is..
- Write meeting minutes in professional written English.
- Explain the planning of an agenda and the preparation required.
- Apply practical tips and useful words for producing accurate meeting minutes.
- What you should do during a meeting.
Course Content
- Introduction to Fundamentals of Meetings –> 1 lecture • 5min.
- Background of Meeting Minutes –> 1 lecture • 6min.
- Why Meetings fail? –> 1 lecture • 4min.
- How to arrange a Meeting –> 1 lecture • 10min.
- Necessary Sections of a Meeting –> 1 lecture • 8min.
- Preparation for the meeting –> 1 lecture • 10min.
- Creating the right environment –> 1 lecture • 10min.
- Taking Notes –> 1 lecture • 8min.
- The Minutes –> 1 lecture • 15min.
- Impact of the Freedom of Information Act on minutes –> 1 lecture • 3min.
- Conclusion –> 1 lecture • 1min.
- Minute taking practice –> 1 lecture • 1min.
Requirements
Gain the skills for Minute Taking concise and with a purpose to make your Meetings productive and successful. This Minute Taking course will help you overcome communication barriers as well as help you reach your goals during meetings. This Minute Taking Online course covers a range of different modules all designed to take you through the course step-by-step, so you can learn the art of effective minute taking.
Meeting minutes serve as an official record of the event, and you have the critical role of creating them and ensuring that they are accurate. You want your notes to be clear and precise, and by delivering accurate meeting minutes you gain the perfect opportunity to shine like a star.
Minute-taking is an essential part of business meetings. The minute taker must be skilled at producing clear and concise minutes to support the business and to ensure the meeting is a success.
It’s extremely easy to miss out on key points during meetings. Projects often get delayed and there is scope for miscommunication across teams and departments without comprehensive knowledge about the agenda of the meeting. Meeting minutes help avoid these ambiguities by allowing employees to reference effecting meeting notes post-meetings.
This training course helps you write and deliver better notes and action points for official meetings. The aim of this online 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.
One of the primary responsibilities of any administrative staff is to successfully take notes during meetings and share transcripts and key points of the same both within the team and to other relevant teams/departments.
Effective Minute taking skills can be easily developed with the right training. Our meeting minute course has been designed by experienced industry veterans who have worked with multiple prestigious organizations.
This course will familiarise you with the minute-taking process, including preparation, note-taking during the meeting, and producing the final Minutes document. Upon completion, you will understand the importance of minute taking and have the information you need to feel confident and capable of your ability.
The course is designed for anyone who is in a secretarial or minute taking role and wants to strengthen their minute taking skills. It is also suitable for those who are starting out as a minute taker and are unsure where to begin. It will prove particularly useful if you feel anxious, confused, or simply wish to enhance your ability to effectively take notes and produce professional, comprehensive Minutes with confidence.