Minute Taking
This one-day workshop deals with producing effective agendas and minutes.
Course Benefits
To enhance participants' minute writing skills and develop the full potential of their roles as committee secretaries
Course Programme
- Role of the Committee Secretary
- Understanding the role, before, during and after the meeting
Preparing agendas
- Role of committee secretary in planning, prioritising and agreeing agenda items
- Preparing and distributing the notice and agenda
Recording minutes
- Listening, understanding, assessing, deciding and checking
- Different types of minutes and most appropriate use of each
- Taking effective notes quickly
Developing effective liasion skills and strategies
- Asserting the role of the committee secretary
Writing up the minutes
- Structure, content, style
This course is ideal for anyone who is responsible for taking minutes at meetings.
Please contact Irish Times Training on 01 472 7101 or email gencourses@irishtimes.com for details of forthcoming courses and to obtain registration details.
