About this Course

Course Description

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 take right notes?

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

Competencies of the effective minute-taker

- Core competencies for taking notes effectively

- Delete insignificant verbs

Importance and purpose of minutes Agenda

- Purpose of agenda

- Designing the agenda: one to send to meeting delegates, one for the leader of the meeting

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

- Managing the meeting delegates

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 tense 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.

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