Minute Taking Skills

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Details

For anyone who has to take minutes at formal or informal meetings. It will provide the necessary skills to take accurate and relevant notes and translate them into professional minutes with ease and confidence.
Duration: 1 day
Book Included: Key Guides: Minute Taking

Aims

To provide the necessary skills to take accurate, appropriate minutes, with confidence.

For

Anyone who has to take minutes at formal or informal meetings, whether they are a complete beginner or already have experience. It does not specifically cover Annual General Meetings, selection panels, disciplinary hearings or case conferences.

Learning Outcomes

- Be able to judge the style and content of minutes appropriate for the meetings you minute
- Be confident in using a framework to simplify the process of note-taking during meetings and writing up the minutes afterwards
- Explore the relationship between the minute-taker and the chair, and how it can contribute to effective meetings
- Discuss practical tips to make the minute-taker’s job easier

Content

- The legal and practical purpose of minutes
- Technical issues to do with meetings that can affect the minutes
- The layout, presentation and writing styles for minutes
- Different approaches to producing minutes, in a variety of situations
- Strategies for taking relevant and accurate notes
- The role of the minute-taker in relation to others in the meeting
- Practise and feedback

'It was excellent & really helpful; I learned a lot and will definitely be helped by this course' - SHS (School-Home Support)


Venues and Dates

London

Charity Centre, Directory of Social Change, 24 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2DP

  • 29 February 12 

London

Charity Centre, Directory of Social Change, 24 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2DP

  • 24 May 12 

London

Charity Centre, Directory of Social Change, 24 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2DP

  • 29 November 12 

Fees

Band A £190.00

Band B £285.00

Band C £385.00

[Price Bands]

Band A: Voluntary and community organisations with a turnover of between £100,000 and £500,000.

Band B: Voluntary and community organisations with a turnover of over £500,000.

Band C: Statutory and commercial organisations.


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