Both formal and informal meetings are taking place every day in any organization, but who is taking and recording the minutes from these meetings?

Are accurate records of key business decisions being recorded? Who were the key decision makers? Does anyone know what happened in the meeting and what decisions were made and carried?  What ideas were discussed and motioned? Are your business units effectively implementing decisions made after the meeting?

The PD Training Minute Taking Training course will enable you to understand the important role of a minute-taker as well as efficiently recording all the important information discussed.  Learn key skills like deciding what should be recorded, active listening, how to create drafts and reports, organizational skills and much more.

This comprehensive training course is available across the United States, including Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Birmingham, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Jackson, Los Angeles, Manhattan, Miami, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia, San Antonio and Seattle.

Looking for a 3-hour Live Online version of the course? Click Here to View Our 3-Hour Virtual Minute Taking Training Courses


Your Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, participants will:

  • Recognize the importance and outcomes of minute taking
  • Identify and record action items during board meetings
  • Develop skills in active listening, critical thinking, and organization
  • Understand and customize meeting agreements
  • Record three types of minutes, including formal meetings, informal, and action minutes
  • Prepare and publish minutes with perfection
  • Take minutes in interactive board meetings
  • Write drafts, proofread and organize minutes
  • Build and maintain a minute book
  • Recognize the outcome of minute taking for a particular meeting
  • Recognize the role of a minute taker in achieving larger goals of an organization
  • Deal with common complaints and difficulties faced by minute takers
  • Perform the role with expertise using knowledge and skills


PDT Training specialise in:

Live Online

Face-to-Face

Hybrid

Plus the workshops are always tailored to your current context

Course Reviews

  • I don't usually take the minutes for our staff meetings, but I was surprised how much was relevant and how much I learned about being more helpful and more professional in my job!"Individual Participant
  • Terry was a great teacher. I learnt how valuable my role is as the minute taker and I scheduled time with our Chairman after this course to ensure he was happy."Salus Aviation Limited
  • Interesting delivery for Minute taking. Never thought about the 'personality' aspect influencing the type/quality/delivery of Minutes before, so that was fascinating for me. Better dynamics with the tables and good to work in groups with different people for bouncing ideas and brainstorming. Theory based learning was also well presented. "UQ

Plus you’ll also receive:

shield

Money Back
Guarantee

If you’re not happy with the outcomes from
the course we offer a money back guarantee

profiles

REACH
Profiles

For every participant
valued at $199 each

sick

Sick Day
Safety Net

No one left behind
with our 1/2 price re-run promise

dashboard

Development
Dashboard

12-months access to the unique REACH Future Proofing Personal Development Dashboard with personally curated learning to develop agility to adapt to different people tasks and situations.

Learn Minute Taking Training Now

Improve your meeting outcomes with effective minute taking.

Effective minute taking will enable your business units to solve the many problems and complaints associated with running meetings. In the hands of a competent minute taker, the development of the skills in minute taking will enable managers and staff to efficiently record meeting items.

You will also learn the advanced styles of minute taking such as color-coding, and gain knowledge about the suitable methods for minute taking in informal, formal and action meetings.

Who will benefit from participating in this workshop?

  • Administrative staff and assistants
  • Recording Secretary
  • Administrative Assistant

See the Live Online tab for the course outline for the live online course

Course Outline for Minute Taking Training

After completing this course, participants will have learned to:

Topic 1

Minute Taking

  • Welcome
  • Role Defined
  • Please Define Your Role
  • What is Your Take Away for Today?
  • The Effective Minute Taker
  • Problems That Can be Encountered and How You Can Overcome t\Them
  • Reflection

Topic 2

Your Winning Style and How Best to Communicate with Your Manager

  • REACH Review – Communication Evolution Tool
  • Reflection
  • Topic 3

    Active Listening

    • 5 Ways to Improve Your Listening Ability
    • Reflection

    Topic 4

    Set up for Success – Plan beforehand

    • Taking Effective Minutes Starts Before the Meeting has Even Begun
      • 1. Agenda Creation
      • Templates for Preparation
      • 2. Room Setup up for the Digital Era
      • 3. Where to Sit
      • 4. Discreet Interruption Signals
      • 5. Communication Plan
    • Reflection

    Topic 5

    Determine What’s Important

    • Methods of Taking Notes
      • 1. Mind Mapping
      • 2. Smart Wisdom
      • 3. WHAT-WHO-WHEN
    • Do’s and Don’ts of Taking Minutes
    • Reflection

    Topic 6

    Minute Taking gone Digital

    • Revolution of Digital Minute Taking
    • Revolution of Digital Minute Taking with Apps (iPad, phone, laptop)
    • Reflection

    Topic 7

    Formal vs Informal

    • Formal vs Informal
    • Formal Meetings
    • Informal Meetings
    • Reflection

    Topic 8

    Reflections

    • Create an Action Plan
    • Accountability = Action

    4.8/5

    from 67 responses
    Download PDF Outline Duration: 1.0 Days

    Plus you’ll also receive:

    shield

    Money Back
    Guarantee

    If you’re not happy with the outcomes from
    the course we offer a money back guarantee

    profiles

    REACH
    Profiles

    For every participant
    valued at $199 each

    sick

    Sick Day
    Safety Net

    No one left behind
    with our 1/2 price re-run promise

    dashboard

    Development
    Dashboard

    12-months access to the unique REACH Future Proofing Personal Development Dashboard with personally curated learning to develop agility to adapt to different people tasks and situations.

    Learn Minute Taking Training Now

    We create training that meets your needs.

    1-hour Motivator

    3-hour Power Sessions

    Full Day Training

    Conferences & Summits

    • OFFSITE
    • AT YOUR WORKPLACE
    • ONLINE

    We’ll make things easier so you can focus on adding more value

    We take care of all of the details, so you don’t have to:

    • Invite people to
      training
    • Sign
      In Sheet
    • Generate Branded
      Course Flyers
    • PDF’S of
      Certificates
    • Collects and
      Reports Feedback
    • Complete Results
      Dashboard

    What are people going to do differently?

    At the completion of training participants are encouraged to create an action plan, and invite an accountability buddy via their Orgmenta App.

    In your Training Management Centre you have transparency to the action plans so you can see what people are going to do differently.

    Want to get clear on impacts and measure success? We support you.

    Our systems and people make it easy to identify how you’ll be able to measure impacts and then report on the success in the weeks or months after training.

    Do you already have a training management system and wish they were automatically up to date?

    It’s surprisingly easy to make it so that your system can automatically be up to date with all the training record details you need.

    More than just a training provider - we are your learning and development partner.

    We look forward to working with you, talk to one of our friendly expert consultants today.
    Talk to our team

    Details:

    • Small classes, average 5 people, max 16
    • Certificate of Completion (always available in the App)
    • Comprehensive courseware available in the App

    Questions:

    Upcoming Live Classes

    Live Online

    3-hour course

    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM America/Los_Angeles

    USD450.00

    February 7

    Enroll Now Filling Fast

    March 19

    Enroll Now Filling Fast

    April 30

    Enroll Now Filling Fast

    June 12

    Enroll Now Filling Fast

    Course Outline for Minute Taking Training

    After completing this course, participants will have learned to:

    Topic 1

    Your Winning Style and How Best to Communicate with Your Manager

  • REACH Review – Communication Evolution Tool
  • Reflection
  • Topic 2

    Active Listening

    • 5 Ways to Improve Your Listening Ability
    • Reflection

    Topic 3

    Set up for Success – Plan beforehand

    • Taking Effective Minutes Starts Before the Meeting has Even Begun
      • 1. Agenda Creation
      • Templates for Preparation
      • 2. Room Setup up for the Digital Era
      • 3. Where to Sit
      • 4. Discreet Interruption Signals
      • 5. Communication Plan
    • Reflection

    Topic 4

    Determine What’s Important

    • Methods of Taking Notes
      • 1. Mind Mapping
      • 2. Smart Wisdom
      • 3. WHAT-WHO-WHEN
    • Do’s and Don’ts of Taking Minutes
    • Reflection

    When you book a Public Class with PD Training you can expect:

    To Be Engaged All Day

    Activities and discussion for engaged learning all day.

    An outstanding trainer

    On average PDT trainers have 15 years industry experience and 7 years training experience.

    Focussed on you

    We always tailor activities and scenarios to be relevant to you.

    Refresher Course $0

    In-House and Public Class participants are welcome to join a public class in the same topic for 12 months.

    Acclaimed Provider

    The confidence of booking with an acclaimed multi-national training company.

    Multi-modal Reinforcement

    Support, reinforcement & extension eLearning and videos in the App.

    Outstanding learning that people can do in the flow of work

    • Fresh targeted video-based microlearning content with interactive lessons and quizzes included.
    • Rigourous review process
    • Only $11.00 per course per person per year
    • Or get the $110.00 bundle and save
    Purchase the microlearning bundle

    This practical and informative minute taking course provides a great grounding in a useful the useful skill of Minute Taking.

    Buy Minute Taking

    Asking Questions

    The most important foundation for communication and building meaningful relationships is listening, develop your skills with this micro eLearning course.

    Bite size learning that people love

    Not exactly what you needed? Try other courses in the Administration Courses Category