The PD Training Minute Taking Training course will enable you to understand the important role of a minute-taker as well as efficiently recording all the important information discussed. Learn key skills like deciding what should be recorded, active listening, how to create drafts and reports, organisational skills and much more.
Both formal and informal meetings are taking place every day in any organisation, but who is taking and recording the minutes from these meetings? Are accurate records of key business decisions being recorded?
Who were the key decision makers? Does anyone know what happened in the meeting and what decisions were made and carried? What ideas were discussed and motioned? Are your business units effectively implementing decisions made after the meeting?
You will learn about your own personality type as well as other personality types and how to engage others in an entirely new way that provides a path to better communication and improved minute-taking skills.
PD Training can provide a complete professional development program for your organisation which includes personality profiling and automated training needs analysis, so contact us today to learn more!
This action packed day will include fun mock-meetings and activities run by one of our expert minute-taking trainers and is now available throughout Australia, including Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra and Perth.
Please click on our Online Public Course Schedule for dates or click the In-House Training tab to receive a free quote for courses delivered at your preferred location.
| Course name | Length | Outline | Next class |
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| Business Etiquette Training | 1.0 day course | View schedule | |
| Meeting Management Training | 1.0 day course | View schedule | |
| Personal Productivity Training | 1.0 day course | View schedule | |
| Time Management Training | 1.0 day course | 16 July | |
| Foundation Skills for Elite Personal Assistants and Executive Assistants Training Course | 1.0 day course | 21 August | |
| Minute-Taking Training | 1.0 day course | 6 August | |
| Advanced Skills for Elite PA's and EA's | 1.0 day course | 30 August | |
| Presentation Skills Training - Accelerated 1 day | 1.0 day course | View schedule |
After Completing this Course Participants Will be Able to:
"I've learned that whenever you take minutes it is not like writing a script but only keywords. What are the responsibilities of a minute taker. How to be more confident and be a good listener."
-SkillsTech Australia
"I liked that Louise got us to work out how much a meeting actually can cost a company. It gave me a whole new perspective on Meetings and the importance of getting them right! Louise shared apps and Youtube clips to watch to reinforce out training. I loved her "Car Park" idea. A tool which I will definitely utilise."
"The Trainer addressed our individual needs first which gave her time then to go through the manual. I thoroughly enjoyed the delivery of the minute taking course. The Trainer used different methods to keep the class attentive and focused. Thank you for a helpful day."
-Bega Garnbirringu Health Services
"Anne was a wonderful trainer. She made the environment very relaxed and easy to learn in. She had good, solid examples of each the types of minutes for different meetings. Very insightful. Personally, I benefited from her examples of how to truncate/tighten my minutes. She did not make me feel as if I was a crap minute-taker. She said that it was my personality/style to be as detailed as I am."
-Sydney Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine
-Family and Community Services - Aboriginal Housing Office
"The Trainer was fantastic- I didn't realise minute taking was so involved, however she explained all steps of the process and how factors such as personality are relevant to the process."
-Department of Aboriginal Affairs
"This minute writing course affirmed that my current techniques and approach is on the right track. The most important thing I've learnt is understanding the big picture of what is discussed and to sum it all up noting actions and deadline."
-Hope Community Services Inc.
"The course was useful and informative. The trainer was good at accommodating the different levels of experience of attendees and I learned some useful tactics."
"Loved how the trainer included everybody in the group/asking questions to all - put me out of my comfort zone and was able to participate fully in the class."
-National Native Title Tribunal
"I was fortunate to have a One on One half day session for the Minute taking course. Jen structured the course to suit my needs and learning requirements. She also went above and beyond to provide me with her own experiences to share what she hasn't learnt. Surprised myself with how I much I already knew but also how quickly I could relate new skills to future roles. Thanks very much Jen. Would love to attend more courses with Jen and look forward to attend the course again in the next few months to recap."
-Civil Aviation Safety Authority
"The course and the trainer were great, I wish I did this training in my early days of Business Administration, a lot of the content was something I had learnt myself and when I completed my Business certificates III & IV, however a proper training course will help me better my learning career as there is always room for improvement. I have taken away a lot of strategies and tips from this course. I guess for me, it'll be implemented in future employment opportunities as there was a lot more formal content, however the trainer helped me with listening strategies to pay more attention to the speaker and not to lose focus which is a huge thing for me. I thoroughly enjoyed the course and stayed on track all day, learnt a lot about myself as an employee too!! Thank you so much!! :)
-Individual Course Participant
"Interesting delivery for Minute taking. Never thought about the 'personality' aspect influencing the type/quality/delivery of Minutes before, so that was fascinating for me. Better dynamics with the tables and good to work in groups with different people for bouncing ideas and brainstorming. Theory based learning was also well presented. Kate knows her stuff. Thank you." "Have found the different approach to minute-taking refreshing and innovative. I have done another course at AIM many years ago and it did not touch on any psychological factors or offer alternatives for different styles as this one has. Kate is an engaging presenter and has done a stellar job of bringing together the group from very different work environments to one platform for learning. She has endeavoured to involve all members of the group to openly participate."
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Improve your organisation's meeting outcomes with the use of effective minute-taking.
Effective minute-taking will enable your business units to solve many problems and complaints associated with running meetings. In the hands of a competent minute-taker, managers and staff are enabled to effectively action efficiently recorded meeting items.
You will also learn advanced styles of minute taking such as colour-coding and suitable methods for minute-taking in informal, formal and action meeting scenarios.
See the Live Online tab for the course outline for the live online course
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Topic 1
Minute Taking
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Topic 2
Your Winning Style and How Best to Communicate with Your Manager |
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Topic 3
Active Listening
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Topic 4
Set up for Success – Plan beforehand
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Topic 5
Determine What’s Important
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Topic 6
Minute Taking gone Digital
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Topic 7
Formal vs Informal
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Topic 8
Reflections
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When you want a tailored learning experience targeting exactly what you want without bringing everyone physically together, the best choice is a Live Online Class run by PDT.
We tailor the content and activities to be specific to your current needs and the needs of the people and run the course in our usual activity-based workshop style training, however, the participants can all be offsite, or some can be in the room with others offsite.
Unless you have a preferred tools we use 'Zoom for Education' that includes enhanced collaboration features such as One-click content sharing, real-time co-annotation (people can work together in activity files), and digital whiteboarding, we also include things like live polls and group chats so you virtually have the same collaborative learning experience of attending a course in a room with other people.
We have delivered these 100's (if not 1000's) of times, and get great outcomes. We achieve great outcomes because we keep our learner centric approach - just because it’s delivered through a screen to some or all participants doesn’t mean it needs to be less tailored or less personalised.
You still have an expert trainer who talks to you prior to the session and tailors the delivery to use your terminology, ensure activities are relevant and directly applicable and ensures an engaging learning experience that provide people with skills and techniques they can apply the very next day.
A hybrid class is with some people connecting online, and some people physically together in the same room.
We provide the Training Management Centre which is an information hub before, during and after training.
(Let us know if there’s parts you don’t want to use)
Invites people to training
(So you don’t have to)
Generates Sign in Sheet
(So you don’t have to)
Generates Branded Flyer
If you want to ‘promote’ internally
PDF’s of Certificates
(can be co-branded with your logo)
Collects and Reports feedback
(So you don’t have to)
Complete Results Dashboard
(including trainer insights)
At the completion of training participants are encouraged to create an action plan, and invite an accountability buddy via their Orgmenta App.
In your Training Management Centre you have transparency to the action plans so you can see what people are going to do differently.
Our systems and people make it easy to identify how you’ll be able to measure impacts,
and then report on the success in the weeks or months after training.
It’s surprisingly easy to make it so that your system can automatically be up to date with all the training record details you need.
Download Live Online Course Outline (PDF)
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Topic 1
Your Winning Style and How Best to Communicate with Your Manager |
Topic 2
Active Listening
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Topic 3
Set up for Success – Plan beforehand
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Topic 4
Determine What’s Important
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$100 Discount!
Every live online class booking entitles
you to a $100 discount on an
in-person public class.
(Discount valid for 18 months)
Looking for a full-day course in a physical room? Check the calendars in Australia and New Zealand
To Be Engaged All Day
Activities and discussion for engaged learning all day.
An outstanding trainer
On average PDT trainers have 15 years industry experience and 7 years training experience.
Focussed on you
We always tailor activities and scenarios to be relevant to you.
100% Transfer Policy
If an unforseen event prevents public class attendance, no problem. Transfer to new person, course, date or city.
Refresher Course $0
In-House and Public Class participants are welcome to join a public class in the same topic for 12 months.
Multi-modal Reinforcement
Support, reinforcement & extension eLearning and videos in the App.
To Be Engaged All Day
Activities and discussion for engaged learning all day.
An outstanding trainer
On average PDT trainers have 15 years industry experience and 7 years training experience.
Focussed on you
We always tailor activities and scenarios to be relevant to you.
100% Transfer Policy
If an unforseen event prevents public class attendance, no problem. Transfer to new person, course, date or city.
Refresher Course $0
In-House and Public Class participants are welcome to join a public class in the same topic for 12 months.
Multi-modal Reinforcement
Support, reinforcement & extension eLearning and videos in the App.
This practical and informative minute taking course provides a great grounding in a useful the useful skill of Minute Taking.
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