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.
One Day Course | Online Virtual Open Course | In-House Delivery Available
Minute Writing Skills Course – The Details
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Course Highlights
Here’s some quick information about our minute writing skills course:
- 1-day open training course delivered online
- Delivered anywhere in the UK as an in-house course
- Booking is easy. Just select a date and click Book Now!
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
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
When you bring this course in-house, the content above can be tweaked and changed to meet the needs of your team.
Download the Course Brochure
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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.
In-House Delivery
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
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
Have Some Questions?
Here are some of the common questions we get asked about our minute writing skills training course:
Our minute writing skills courses are delivered by our friendly and highly experienced trainers. We live and breathe what we talk about in these sessions as we use most of the tools and techniques ourselves on a daily bases and bring this real-world experience into the session and the examples that we use.
Yes. Many organisations today still widely use Minutes to communicate the 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
Open Online Course
Our Online Minute Writing Skills course is an interactive live virtual course. The content remains the same but the delivery and approach has been re-imagined for the virtual environment. Our online training courses are delivered by Zoom.
In-House Delivery
We can also deliver this Minute Writing Skills course just for your organisation. We can do this in-person at your office or a location of your choice or as a live virtual training course. We can deliver this via Zoom, Teams, Webex or any other platform that you are currently using and comfortable with.
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Ready to Book?
You can attend our Minute Writing Skills course in the following ways. Click an option to see the full details.
Join our live online virtual Minute Writing Skills training course from work or home for an interactive online learning experience.
£215.00 + VAT
£204.25 + VAT
£182.75 + VAT
Price per delegate includes multiple person discounts. Group booking price only applicable when delegates book onto the same course date.
Bring this Minute Writing Skills training course in-house and train your team together at the same time.
- Delivered online or in person at your business premises
- Course content can be tailored to your specific requirements
Complete the form below to get a personalised quote from a member of our team.
