Recording minutes; efficiently, effectively and accurately

This half-day course is intended to provide a working knowledge of meeting protocol, terminology, the roles of meeting participants and how to take meaningful minutes of meetings.  The workshop looks at: Meeting structure and terminology, the meeting agenda, the principal roles of meeting minutes, presentation and layout of minutes, format and legality of minutes, writing meaningful minutes, what goes in and what stays out, record-keeping of minutes and meeting etiquette.

The objectives for you following the workshop are: Understand formal meeting terminolog, know the mandatory components of formal minutes, identify what needs to go in the minutes and what can be left out, to be able to write succinct and meaningful minutes and meet the organisation's record-keeping requirements.