Do you need to take minutes and provide meeting support?

IS THIS COURSE RIGHT FOR YOU?

Could your work benefit from learning the skills and techniques to take accurate minutes and notes?

Knowing how to take accurate and concise minutes and notes is an essential skill not only for providing meeting support but also for supporting your personal career development. 

“A well-developed course presented by experts in the field with many years experience in government.”

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

You will finish this course knowing you can: 

• Prepare an agenda & prepare for the meeting.
• Document outcomes of the meeting using a clear template.
• Differentiate between decisions and action items.
• Prepare an action item listing.

TOPICS COVERED

• Decide which discussions to be minuted and which are omitted.
• Decide which items need narration and which items only need decisions and actions recorded.
• Determine timeframes for circulation of minutes.
• Write concisely and significantly reduce your writing time.
• Avoid common spelling and grammar mistakes.
• Write clearly by learning to proofread and edit documents.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• This course is best suited to new to minuting with little to moderate experience.

NSW Public Sector Commission Capability Framework

Writing Meeting Minutes is for people at the Foundational to Adept level and you will develop the following capabilities:

• Relationships: Communicate effectively
• Results: Deliver results
• Badge will be provided on completion of the course

The course is also mapped to IPAA’s working in the NSW government topic area.