Meetings and minutes

This course maps to capability: 3
COST Prices include GST and are subject to change
Member
$616.00
Group Booking
$627.00
Non-Member
$649.00

Overview

This course helps participants to run an effective meeting and to take good minutes. It is a highly practical course that emphasises saving time in meetings and finding safe and efficient ways to take the minutes of them.

Course Content

This highly practical course helps participants plan, run and follow up a meeting. Participants practise different ways to write an agenda so it saves time and encourages participation. The course looks at the roles and duties of both the convenor and the minute taker. It covers what needs to be in the minutes and what is optional.

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course attendees should be able to:

  • know their responsibilities as a convenor and as a minute taker
  • write a sensible and very useful agenda
  • save time in their meetings
  • solve their typical meeting problems
  • take more succinct minutes
  • know what to put in and what to leave out of their minutes
  • get their minutes out quickly
  • think about the implications of the Government Information Public Access Act ( 2009) for their minutes.

Benefits to your organisation

  • meetings that are held in the organisation will be more efficiently run and more productive
  • minutes will not be risky for the agency

Benefits to you

  • many practical solutions for your meeting and minute taking problems