Successful Minute Taking - Meeting the Challenge

How to prepare, write and organise agendas and minutes of meetings.
Learn to take notes and write minutes of meetings. Your role as the minute taker and how you interact with the chair and other attendees.
Improve your writing skills. A Skills Training Course.
Lots of exercises and free downloadable workbook.

Buy the book, $14.99
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More details about the book on minutes of meetings

The links to the workbook on writing minutes and agendas of meetings will take you to the shopping basket but you won't need to put your card details in as it isfree but you'll find that you need to buy the main book to learn the skills.

Download workbook on writing minutes and agendas of meeting (see below for a preview)

Sample minutes of meetings

Checklist to use when taking minutes

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There are a couple of exercises in the book/workbook with internet links so to save you typing them in here they are:

Exercise: Have a practice at taking notes from real meetings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXluP2vjNiw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WahloApfLmI
(just as far as you want to - it does go on a while)

Examples of minutes:
Sample minutes of meetings
There are lots of examples of minutes on the internet. Here are a couple of different styles for you to look at. They are not necessarily perfect but they can give you ideas for different styles.
Exercise: Have a look at the following minutes, what do you like about them?
What could be improved?
http://www.fsa.gov.uk/Pages/Library/corporate/Board/index.shtml
http://www.south-norfolk.gov.uk/democracy/default.aspx?id=264.xml (brown ones with m on for minutes, reddish brown with a for agenda)
http://www.council.bham.ac.uk/meetings/