Effective Minute Writing Skills

Course details

Feeling stressed when told to write minutes or take notes in meetings? Confused about how to sift the important points from mere comments? Worried?Because you do not understand the business, hence how to get the correct information?

Fear not! Join us and be equipped with simple yet powerful techniques and styles to write clearer and more accurate minutes. After this workshop, you will find writing minutes is a breeze!

Course Outline

Skills of an effective minute-taker

• - Core competencies for taking notes effectively

• Importance and purpose of minutes Agenda

Listening for information and emotion

• Sifting the important information from the unimportant
• Distinguishing between results, reasons, rubbish
• Turning local vernacular into professional language for minutes
• Turning emotional discussions into practical acceptable language
• Managing the meeting delegates : knowing when to interrupt, clarify and confirm

Minute-taking methods

• Learning different methods to take notes during meetings
• Redundant words commonly used in our reports

Writing the finished minutes

• Using the ABC principle once you know this principle, minute-writing is a breeze!
• Making sense of correct tenses – grammar, capital letters?, active voice vs passive voice

• Meeting minute formats
• Lots of practical exercises, discussions, feedback

Who Should Attend

ANYONE who uses emails, draft letters, proposals & other materials.