Program
Taking minutes
- Types of minutes
- How can you take notes efficiently? Mind maps, abbreviations and other techniques
- Focus during the meeting: listening while taking notes
Listening for better note-taking
- What is the best listening strategy?
- Selective listening
- How do you distinguish between main issues and side issues?
- How do you summarise a conversation clearly?
Meetings
- Different types of meetings and objectives
- Meeting agenda: the stages of a meeting
Writing up the minutes
- Taking selective minutes: what do you leave out?
- How do you save time when writing up minutes?
- Using formats for minutes
- Taking minutes on your laptop: learn to use a laptop to save even more time and energy when taking minutes.