Course overview
Effective minute-taking is vital to the efficient organisation and a good minute-taker can transform the effectiveness of a team. This one-day Minute-taking course is a sound introduction to minute-taking and equips you with the knowledge and skills you need to write professional minutes with confidence.
This is a hands-on course with practical exercises throughout the day to help you capture the essential information accurately.
What you'll learn
This course provides you with an opportunity to practice and review your minute-taking so you leave knowing how to take effective and clear minutes. The skills you learn will make minute-taking simpler and make you feel more confident.
You will understand the key skills involved in minute-taking, both in terms of format and layout, and the crucial thing about what to put in and what to leave out. It will also help you to work effectively with your chair.
Study method
- In-class
- Online
- Blended
Locations
- England
- London
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Duration study load
- 1 day
Pathways
- Advanced Minutes: formal minute taking for Board and Governance meetings
- The Executive PA; Customer care and telephone skills
- Essential skills for administrators
- Business writing skills
- Proofreading
Who's it for?
This one-day Minutes course is useful to anyone who has to take minutes as part of their work, whether you are asked to minute the occasional team meeting or are responsible for minuting formal Board meetings.
This course is suitable for those who have never taken minutes before as well as those who want a refresher and clarification of minute-taking.
The centre works with people from all sectors including the public sector, voluntary sector, corporate sector and private sector.
We also offer bespoke group training for 3-12 individuals from one organisation. If you would like to explore this option, please get in touch for a quote.
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About Itec Skills and Employment
Itec has been a leading provider of work-based learning programmes for 40 years. As part of the ongoing strategy to place our people at the centre of the business and preserve the company as an independent organisation, Itec Training Solutions Holdings Limited became an employee-owned company in February 2019. We are proud to be the first Welsh independent training provider to become employee-owned, with 100% of the business now owned by our employee-owners.
We are one of the largest and most vocationally diverse work-based learning providers. In Wales holding Welsh Government contracts to deliver Apprenticeships and Jobs Growth Wales Plus (JGW+). In England we hold ESFA contracts to deliver Apprenticeships.
In 2014, we acquired The Centre for Strategy and Communication to support the strategic goal to diversify the business, offering commercial training to individuals and employers throughout the UK and worldwide. In 2021 we merged our Company’s (Itec Training Solutions Limited and Centre for Strategy and Communication), this merger was to enable the business to align and strengthen our brand.
Every day we transform people’s lives by helping them believe in themselves, become more motivated, helping them find employment, progress their careers, acquire new qualifications and skills, or set up in business. We support high-growth organisations to innovate and grow. Helping organisations in the private, public, and charity sectors to support priority and high-growth sectors to achieve their outcomes.
Our ethos is simple. We help individuals start and progress their careers by matching their skills with those of local employers. We ensure our programmes are meaningful, effective, valued, and sustainable to both individuals and employers.
