This Professional Minute Taking Training course, to be delivered in Limerick, is a 1 Day Public Programme and is designed to develop candidates’ confidence and skills of this role and further the understanding of the purpose, style and format of good minute taking. It will give the skills and impart the strategies for recording accurate and relevant minutes of meetings, setting agendas, solutions to common problems etc.  Accurate and concise minute taking is essential to good organisational operations. Minutes need to be correct and need efficient account of all items on the agenda, providing a record and future reference to discussions and decisions taken at meetings.

Our Professional Minute Programme is also available for delivery as a Customised In-Company Course at clients facilities nationwide in Ireland, including Dublin, Cork, Limerick & Galway.

Pre-requirements:

This course is designed for those who have the responsibility of organizing meetings, pa role, or acting as a minute taker to meetings and anyone who wishes to acquire these skills.

Participants Study:

• Defining Minutes
• The Importance of Taking Effective Minutes
• The Role of the Minute Taker
• Setting the Agenda
• Before the Meeting: Be Prepared 
• Key Skills
• Minute Taking Logistics: Active Listening/Clear Writing
• Agendas
• Styles and Formats
• Summarising
• Distribution
• Tips
• Minuting an Annual General Meeting (AGM)
• Solutions to Common Minute-Taking Problems & Dilmema
• Review

Course Contents:

This program covers the essential skills of minute-taking:

Defining Minutes

• Why are they taken
• Types of meeting
• Where minutes are taken

The Importance of Taking Effective Minutes

• The role & content of minutes

The Role of the Minute Taker

• Before, during and after the meeting

Setting the Agenda

•  Points to Note / Sample Agenda

Before the Meeting: Be Prepared

•  The Minute Takers Toolkit

Key Skills

• Active Listening
• Critical Thinking
• Accurate and Clear Writing

Minute Taking Logistics

• The Agenda
• Numbering systems – styles and formats
• Strategies for information layout
• Summarising skills
• Distribution, confirmation of and amending minutes
• Follow-up correspondence and actions
• Tips

Minuting an Annual General Meeting (AGM) 

Solutions to Common Minute-Taking Problems & Dilemmas

Note: The above syllabus may change during the training course to provide more detail in aspects, which have been ascertained to be of greater value to the trainee.

Award: Procad Training Certificate of Completion