Course Outline
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This course is suited to all staff who take minutes at informal meetings within council. By attending this course, participants will gain improved skills in preparing for and taking minutes accurately.
Learning Outcomes
This training course is designed to give you the basic tools you need to take minutes during a meeting, prepare accurate minutes and make them available to attendees, ensure they are adopted and kept in accordance with the appropriate legislation and policies.
A Minutes’ template will be provided for publicly schedule courses. For in-house training, councils may provide council’s Minutes’ template.
Short Course details
| Short Course Topics | |
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| Workshop objectives | |
| Choosing a time and place | |
| Setting up a meeting space | |
| The basic essentials | |
| Choices available | |
| What to consider | |
| The Minute Taker | |
| Attendees | |
| Large vs small meetings | |
| The agenda | |
| Meeting roles & responsibilities | |
| Dealing with disruptions | |
| Personality conflicts | |
| What are minutes | |
| Taking minutes - what do I record? | |
| Delivery | |
| Our instructor-led training course provides participants with an interactive session including group discussions, case study reviews and Question and Answer sessions. Our trainers can customise or tailor the course to your specifications or needs and deliver in-house providing you with a cost-effective and efficient training session. | |
| Duration & location | |
| This is a 90 minute awareness session and can be delivered in any metropolitan or regional area of Queensland. Customisation is available based on individual council requirements. | |
| Fees & Inclusions | |
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Our training course will include:
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Upcoming Dates:
16 March 2022
Peak Services Training Rooms, Level 1, 25 Evelyn Street, Newstead
17 May 2022
Peak Services Training Rooms, Level 1, 25 Evelyn Street, Newstead