Minute Taking

Course Description

Meetings are vital in many businesses, but often their effectiveness is lost because the information they provide isn't recorded accurately or the actions required aren't clearly communicated.

​This course provides a variety of best-practice frameworks to help delegates filter the essential information from a meeting and record it in a useful, consistent way that they can adapt to the needs of their organisation.

Rather than relying on speedwriting, this course focuses on drawing out key points and making notes relevant to the needs of stakeholders in the room. It shows how to compile concise meeting notes, covering all key points without wasting words or time.

This course is a blended learning experience, allowing you to continue to develop your skills back at work. Therefore you are expected to agree a learning plan with your nominating manager, which incorporates both the study day and opportunities with support, to apply learning back in the work place.

Learning Objectives

  • Take notes effectively during a meeting
  • Select and organise information for inclusion in the set of minutes
  • Write minutes that are accurate, clear and free from ambiguity
  • Assess and evaluate minutes

Intended Audience

This course is suitable for anyone who is required to take formal, factual records of meetings and distribute action points afterwards.

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How to book 

Learning and Development has now gone fully self-service with ESR. This means rather than using the L&D portal on your desktop to book onto our courses, you will book your place directly through ESR.

Guidance can be found on your homepage of ESR (https://my.esr.nhs.uk/) .... look for the following section:

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