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If people can’t remember or agree on what actually occurred at a meeting, how can the group effectively accomplish its objectives? This one-day workshop will enable participants to understand their role as a minute taker and the best techniques for producing minutes that include all the essential information needed.

Specific learning objectives include:
- Recognize the importance of minute-taking.
- Develop key minute-taking skills, including listening skills, critical thinking, and organization.
- Be able to remedy many of the complaints that beset minute-takers.
- Be able to write minutes that are suitable for formal meetings, semi-formal meetings, and action minutes.
- Be an efficient minute-taker in any type of meeting.
- Be able to prepare and maintain a minute book.

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Target Audience

Our courseware is primarily purchased by five types of trainer; HR managers, corporate trainers, private training firms, educational institutions, or private consultants. The target audience varies on the instructor and the type of training required by a particular organization.

The students for this course are usually training staff or managers involved in training.

Prerequisites

No previous experience or training in minute taking is required, though students should possess basic numeracy and literacy and ideally have a basic understanding of using computers and software applications, such as Microsoft Word.

 

What You Actually Receive

  • Student manual Fully customisable. May be opened in any wordprocessor and changed to meet your exact needs. 1
  • Trainer manual Fully customisable with additional information for trainers. 2
  • Ice breakers and class activities Fully customisable. Delivered as a folder full of activities for your students. 3
  • PCQ - Pre-Course Questionnaires Fully customisable. Ensures you can get a fully understanding of your delegates expectations, requirements and current skill levels before they attend the course. 4
  • Content overview Fully customisable. Comprehensive course overview to help you market your course to your customers. 5
  • Presentations Fully customisable. Complete set of PowerPoint slides for use by the trainer. 6
  • Additional reading... Fully customisable. Give your students some recommended further reading materials for this course. 7
  • Sales information sheets Fully customisable. Information sheets to help you sell your course to your employees or external customers. 8

The Courseware Company (established in the early 1990s and part of gtslearning) is the only European authorised reseller of Velsoft courseware materials and print licences. Velsoft offers fully customisable training materials, delivered online and fully supported with instructor resources and student study tools.

To get started, just open this training courseware in your favourite word processor. You can fully customise the materials to suit your exact learning needs and include your own branding. Your own tailor-made course, delivered 'off-the-peg' and saving you thousands of pounds in development time and man-hours. Just press print and the perfect learning experience is yours to deliver.

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  • Proven Our course materials are used in hundreds of training centres around the world. Every course is fully beta tested and validated in the classroom before undergoing a full production release. 3
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  • Totally flexible Courses can be modified to meet specific requirements. Sections can be removed. New content added. One or more titles can be combined. Whatever your training requirements, our courseware can help you meet that need. 6
  • Unlimited users Content is sold on a site licence basis. You can train as many staff or employees at that location as you like. Forever! 7
  • Buy once. Use forever! You’re buying a perpetual licence. One payment gives you an unlimited site licence for use as long as you need it. 8
  • No limits! Unlike some content providers, our licence enables you to reprint the courseware as many times as you like. 1 student or 100,000, it doesn’t matter... 9

The Minute-Taker's Workshop Training Outline

Introduction and Course Overview You will spend the first part of the day getting to know participants and discussing what will take place during the workshop. Students will also have an opportunity to identify their personal learning objectives.

The Role of a Minute Taker To begin, participants will discuss the role of a minute taker. They will also explore common problems and solutions in small groups.

The Skills of a Minute Taker Next, participants will learn about the three key skills that a minute taker must have: an ability to listen, critical thinking skills, and good organization techniques.

Meeting Agreements This session will discuss meeting agreements and give participants three templates to take away and customize.

Styles of Minutes During this session, participants will look at samples of three types of minutes: formal, informal, and action.

What Do I Record? Next, participants will learn what to record during a meeting.

Techniques for Preparing Minutes This session will give participants the tools for creating minutes, including organization methods, techniques for writing drafts, and proofreading tips.

Taking Minutes in an Interactive Meeting During this session, participants will learn how their role as a minute-taker will be different in an interactive meeting.

The Minute Book To wrap up the day, participants will learn how to build and maintain a minute book.

Workshop Wrap-Up At the end of the day, students will have an opportunity to ask questions and fill out an action plan.

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