Taking good 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 workshop gives participants sensible and practical strategies to take minutes. It helps them to cut down on wasted time and to know what to put in and what to leave out of minutes.

Course Content

This workshop looks at the whole process from keeping the committee file and writing a sensible and practical agenda to sending out the minutes and the action sheet. Participants look at many sets of minutes to give them ideas about how best to structure the minutes for each committee they work with. They take a number of short sets of minutes from meetings and get some really good ideas about how they could have done them more simply.

Course Outcomes

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

  • know the compulsory elements of minutes
  • understand some of the implications on minutes of the Government Information Public Access Act (2009)
  • have three useful structures for taking minutes of an item
  • know how to take minutes of an argument
  • know how to manage all those technical terms and acronyms
  • have many templates to choose from
  • have a good idea about how improve their skills after they leave the course.

Benefits to your organisation

  • fewer risks to the agency from inappropriate content in minutes
  • more useful minutes
  • more productive staff

Benefits to you

  • clear idea of what you must keep records of
  • increased skills in listening for the key facts
  • strategies to manage those difficult meetings