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Minute Writing Skills Training Course

Our Minute Writing Skills training course is delivered as an online virtual open course. We can also deliver the course in-house just for your business as an in-person course or a live virtual online course.

Minute Writing Skills Course Highlights

Here’s some quick information about our Minute Writing Skills course:

  • 1-day training course delivered online
  • Delivered anywhere in Ireland as an in-house course
  • Booking is easy. Just select a location, a date and hit Book Now!

Course Overview

Course Aim

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

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

Download the Course Brochure

Download a copy of our Minute Writing Skills training course brochure below.

Download Minute Writing Skills Course Brochure

Our Approach

No PowerPoint

Yes, you read that right! We’ve removed PowerPoint from our in-person training courses. Instead we use more creative ways to deliver content and generate discussion.

Always Interactive

No matter how you attend, our courses are interactive and designed specifically for the delivery method being used.

Practical Tools

We minimise theory and focus on practical tools you can take away and use immediately in the workplace.

Clear Pricing

Transparent pricing for open courses and clear all-inclusive quotes for in-house and bespoke work.

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