Minute Taking Training
Our Minute Taking training shows participants how to write clear and accurate minutes with confidence. Effective meetings depend on the skill of the minute taker, but the role is often undervalued. Our workshops give people the knowledge and understanding required in order to provide professional and efficient support to their committees and groups.
What will Participants Learn?
- To prepare for and service meetings efficiently.
- To use simple techniques for effective note-taking.
- To translate notes into effective minutes using best practice in content and structure.
Who is the Workshop for?
The course is suitable for those new to minute-taking and those with some experience who want to formalise their skills. We adapt the content to suit either private or public sector.
"I thoroughly enjoyed your course on minute taking yesterday and came away feeling a lot more confident in my minute taking skills. I shall certainly recommend your course to anyone who is lost in 'the labyrinth of minute taking'."
Amy Murray, Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Benefits to your Organisation
Better minutes mean:
- Clearer and faster communication.
- Time savings for committee members.
- Increased confidence that decisions are accurately recorded.
- Actions completed sooner, through easily-tracked, clearly-defined action points.
Course Content
- The context: what minutes are for, why they matter, legal status.
- Types of minutes.
- The minute-taker’s role: servicing the meeting, working with your committee.
- Common obstacles to effective minute-taking, and how to overcome them.
- The structure of minutes and how they link to formal agendas.
- What to minute (and what not to minute).
- Listening and minute-taking exercises, with discussion and feedback.
- Writing concisely and accurately, avoiding ambiguity.
All our workshops are very interactive, with a mixture of group discussions, breakout activities and games.
Minute Taking Training Prices
One-day workshops:
£350 plus £40 per person.
Reduced price for charities
£350 plus £10 per person.
**Includes free post-course query-response support for 12 months**
If you would like to run courses of a different duration, please get in touch for a price.
We keep expenses to a minimum, and will include these in our proposal to you so that you have no nasty suprises after the training.
On-the-Job Follow Up
To develop the learning further, we’re happy to arrange post-course phone and e-mail one-to-one tuition. We’ll then guide participants through their next set of minutes, and suggest amendments and corrections.
To talk to Beverley Moore about Minute Taking training tailored to your needs, please call 0845 0523920 or email us
