Minute Writing Skills Training Course

Course Aims

This Minute Writing course looks at the skills and knowledge required to capture and write up effective minutes.

Course Objectives

By attending this Minute Writing Skills Training Course you will:

• Know the purpose of meeting minutes and their importance
• Be able to prepare yourself and the tools you need to take minutes
• Know the rules surrounding grammar and language for meeting minutes
• Understand the roles in a meeting
• Know about good and bad minute taking practices
• What should minutes include and not include
• Have a range of tools to effectively capture meeting minutes
• Have the skills to listen effectively
• Have practiced a number of minute taking scenarios   

Course Content

Here's what we cover in our Minute Writing Skills Training Course:

What are Minutes?

• What are minutes?
• What goes into meeting minutes?
• What do good meeting minutes do?

Responsibilities

• What are the responsibilities of the minute taker?
• A typical cycle of a meeting and minutes

Preparing for a Meeting

• What to prepare before attending a meeting?
• Roberts rules of order
• What to do at the start, during and at the end of the meeting?

Taking Minutes

• Tips for good meeting minutes
• Shortening techniques (truncating words and using symbols and abbreviations)
• Using a minute taking template
• Listening effectively
• Structuring minutes

Writing Up Minutes

• Translating your notes
• Laying out your structure
• Writing your minutes

 Skills Practice

• Practising writing minutes using videos to observe meetings

If you opt to have this course delivered in-house, the content above can be tweaked and changed to ensure the course meets your specific needs.

Who Should Attend our Minute Writing Skills Training Course?

This minute writing skills training course is for anyone who has responsibility for capturing, producing and communicating minutes of meetings.

If you want to:

• Know how to capture minutes effectively
• Be able to produce minutes from your notes
• Know some short-hand techniques you can use when capturing minutes
• Be able to reproduce minutes in a structured way
• Have a better approach to taking minutes

Then this minute taking skills course is for you.

The course is suitable for people of all levels and in all roles and industries.

Online Training Courses

A 1 day online live virtual training course with one of our highly experienced minute writing skills trainers. You also get:

• A highly interactive online experience
• Access to MyRevolution Learning to retain access to your materials and stay in touch with your trainer
• A digital copy of the course materials from the course
• A digital course certificate

In-Person & Online In-House

A 1 day training course with one of our highly experienced trainers at your location or online. You also get

• Course materials for each delegate to take away
• A course certificate
• Reporting on delegate evaluation
• Access to MyRevolution Learning to retain access to your materials and stay in touch with your trainer

Yes. Minutes are still widely used by many organisations today to communicate main points of meetings and agreed actions.

Yes, but believe it or not, this takes more time as you have to watch the whole meeting back through again. Plus, there are some privacy issues around this. If minutes are taken well, they can be quickly reproduced into a document as you will have only captured the major points you needed.

Yes. We've designed some activities so you can have a go at capturing minutes during the course

Yes. We have lots of articles about writing skills in the business writing section of our blog.