Ever felt anxious and overwhelmed taking minutes at a meeting? Is it difficult to keep up with what is being said and to know what to write and what to leave out? These and others are common concerns of minute-takers.
Let us show you how to take control and learn what must and must not be noted and reduce the amount of notes you take by more than half.
Feel more confident in producing your minutes by applying a practical structure that makes your minutes easy to create, read and follow.
By attending the course delegates will:
- Learn how to organise yourself before going into the meeting to make life easier
- Identify what you can discuss with the Chairperson prior to the meeting to reduce anxiety
- Compare three types of agenda and assess the agenda that reduces the notes you take during the meeting by more than half
- Decide when to use ‘present’, ‘in attendance’, ‘apologies’ and ‘absent’
- What to do when details within the previous minutes are said to be inaccurate
- What are ‘matters arising’? Apply a simple technique to gather, understand and create these
- Examine what not to do when taking notes unless you want writer’s cramp!
- Learn exactly what to listen out for to dramatically reduce the amount of notes you have to take during the meeting
- Decide how reading body language can help you during the meeting
- Learn a layout and structure that make your minutes easy to read and apply simple grammar rules to aid your writing.
Duration 1 day
Coaching support available for this course