Our Workshops

Description

1-Day Workshop

If people can’t remember or agree on what actually occurred at a meeting, how can the group effectively accomplish its objectives?

Understand your role as a minute-taker and the best techniques for producing minutes that include all the essential information needed

 To ensure that meetings are productive, three ingredients are necessary:

An assurance of closure / A strong chair or leader / Accurate minutes

This one-day workshop focuses on why meetings are an essential element of business communication:

• Organise, prepare for and take minutes efficiently.
• Recognize the importance of minute-taking
• Develop key minute-taking skills, including listening skills, critical thinking, and organization
• Be able to remedy many of the complaints that beset minute-takers
• Be able to write minutes that are suitable for formal meetings, semi-formal meetings, and action minutes
• Be an efficient minute-taker in any type of meeting
• Be able to prepare and maintain a minute book

Workshop Outline

• Clearly identify your role before, during and after the meeting.
• Ensuring a meeting is successful - what role will you play?
• Arranging the meeting, agenda setting, minute taker
• The meeting cycle and structure of a meeting
• Recognise the important role of the minute taker
• The necessary skills of a minute taker
• Styles of minutes
• What’s important and what’s not
• Tips to help you summarise and take down the most important points

• Understand best practice theories to prepare for meetings and write effective minutes.
• Identify positive strategies to listening and summarising.
• Deal with jargon and technical language and grammar professionally.
• Identify different methods of minute taking and organising your material.
• Learn techniques to identify and highlight important points in a clear concise language.
• Agenda setting with example layouts
• Do's and don’ts of effective note taking
• Layout of minutes with examples
• Practical exercises
• Business English
• Punctuation
• Grammar

Planning And Executing Professional Meetings

• Why do meetings have a bad reputation?
• How to prevent pointless meetings
• The ten commandments of effective meetings
• The stages of an effective meeting
• Scheduling and administration of meetings
• Clearly identify your role before, during and after the meeting

Practical Agenda Setting And Minute – Taking Guidelines

• The agenda
• How to create an effective agenda
• Agenda meeting sample
• Why meeting minutes matter
• How to improve your active listening skills
• Minute taking tips to assist you before, during and after the meeting
• Meeting minutes do’s and don’ts
• Example of minutes

Business Etiquette Tips

• How to make a positive impression
• Tips for being assertive
• International etiquette

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On-Site Workshops

• All workshops are offered in-house at your offices to a minimum of 5 delegates
• You provide the venue and refreshments, Front Foot supply all the workshop material

 Remote Workshops

• All workshops are offered remotely to a minimum of 5 delegates
• Front Foot supply all the electronic workshop material

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