Minute Takers Workshop

Synopsis

This one-day training course is designed to provide the basic tools required to take minutes during a meeting including how to prepare accurate minutes and make them available to attendees; ensure they are adopted and that they are kept in accordance with the appropriate legislation and policies.

Course Topics

Workshop objectives

• To take accurate minutes of meetings

The meeting space

• The essentials
• Choices available
• What to consider
• The role of the minute taker
• The role of the chair
• Attendees
• Formal vs informal meetings
• The agenda
• Meeting roles and responsibilities
• What are minutes?
• Taking minutes – what do I record?
• Creating an Action List

A Minutes’ template will be provided for publicly scheduled courses. For in-house training, councils may provide council’s Minutes’ template.

Course Details

The Trainer -Donna Neilson