Minute Taking Training
Mastering Minute-Taking: Efficiently Capturing Key Points and Action Items
Minute Taking Training
This course teaches the essential skills needed to accurately and efficiently record meeting discussions and decisions.
Duration
1/2 Day
Prerequisites
None
Quick Glance
- Understand the importance of meetings and recorded minutes
- Identify what to write down and what to leave out
- Effectively utilise tools and techniques to enable effective meeting minute records
- Knowing what to do when the meetings stray from their original purpose
Effective Minute Taking Course Outline
This course covers key techniques for organising information, capturing key points, and summarising discussions in a clear and concise manner.
Overview
- Minutes give an overview of the structure of the meeting.
Minute Taking Competencies
- Look at the five minute taking competencies: communication, writing and summarising, organising, team building and emotional intelligence.
Preparing is key
- If you are not spending 60 to 70% of your time in preparation, then you are not taking minutes effectively.
How to take notes
- Even if you have been taking meeting minutes for years, you can still fall into bad habits.
Meeting minute formats
- Develop a format for recording and publishing minutes.
When the meeting goes off track
- What to do when you are in the meeting diligently taking notes, and the conversation suddenly goes way off topic.
From meeting minutes to action plan
- If the meeting minutes do not get turned into action items, the attendees will soon forget what it is they just agreed to do as a result of the meeting.
After the meeting, close the loop
- Look at the six steps you go through to close the loop and produce the meeting minutes.
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