Effective note and minute taking

Writing Skills

Accurate notes and minutes are essential for any meeting to be effective and productive. This hands-on training breaks the note and minute taking process down into three simple stages and introduces proven and practical techniques. The practical exercises ensure you have the confidence and competence to write notes and minutes which help transform meetings into action.

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Your outcomes

  • Plan and prepare to take notes and minutes with the end in mind
  • Capture and select key information through enhanced listening skills
  • Minute and transcribe key information with ease and accuracy to support reader actions and decisions
  • Write and present a document that is reader-friendly and clearly indicates actions and results
  • Increase your overall confidence when making notes and taking minutes
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Training content

  • Recognizing the challenges a minute-taker faces
  • Valuing your role as a minute taker
  • Understanding the importance of planning before a meeting
  • Using tools and techniques for the format and content of minutes
  • Understanding the role of effective listening when taking minutes
  • Sharpening your listening skills
  • Having a strategy for identifying what is important during a meeting – and what is not
  • Gaining confidence in identifying critical information
  • Dealing with challenging situations and people
  • Understanding how to use reported speech effectively
  • Building a tool box of alternative reported speech verbs
  • Gaining confidence when summarizing
  • Creating a personal strategy for successful minute-taking and transferring this to your workplace

What can you expect from Target Training?

Experiential training environment
Practical content customized to your reality and goals
Share experience, knowledge and best-practices
Pragmatic focus on what you do and how you do it
A trainer who cares about your progress
Enjoyable, safe, fun atmosphere
Lots of opportunity to practise during the session
Feedback from self, trainer and peers
Social learning
Interactive training with transfer to the workplace at the heart
An actionable transfer plan
Further learning resources

Multiple languages

Customized content

Flexible scheduling

Flexible format

Writing skills

Reader-oriented writing

Technical writing

Effective note and minute taking

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