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 New Zealand, including Auckland, Christchurch or Wellington.
Choose your preferred training option. Please click on the Live Online tab to view our Minute Taking Online course schedule or click the public class tab for in-person individual training or the In-House Training tab to receive a free quote for tailored 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 | |
Professional Telephone Skills Training | 1.0 day course | 4 July | |
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 | |
Computer Basics Foundation Training | 1.0 day course | View schedule | |
Advanced Skills for Elite Personal and Executive Assistants | 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:
"Made me aware that there are different ways minutes are taken and the information required in some businesses, is quite different from the information I have needed to record."
Capital Training
"The course was great, very enjoyable and I got a lot from it. The only thing I would have found useful was more emphasis and practice on what information to take down. so for example, watch a video, take the notes then tell us what the points we should have got from it. We did a couple of exercises but wasn't sure if I had taken down the right info as we just had a discussion. Overall, it was a brilliant day."
Arrow International (NZ) Ltd
"The course was interesting and informative on what is quite a dry topic! Thank you."
Selwyn District Council
"The trainer kept the course going and adapted well to the different experiences and levels of expertise within our group. I learnt a lot from the trainer and also from the group. The trainer engaged well with everyone."
Department of Corrections
"I thought the trainer was very professional and full of energy to get through the material. I found the content very insightful. Thanks."
Individual Course Participant
"Our trainer James was excellent. Very easy to talk to and he understood our questions/issues."
"The discussions between those of us taking the training that were generated from the course content and the trainer's facilitation was really useful and supportive."
Ko Awatea Centre - Middlemore Hospital
"Kirsten did very well with how many questions I had asked, it helped with the fact that it was just me and Kirsten but anyhow the information she had given me was relevant and very effective in how I do my job."
Top Energy Ltd
"Very good training, especially for those needing a good general overview for all matters relating to minute taking. "
"Michael kept his presentation interesting and kept the course moving along and finished on time."
Nelson City Council
"The focus of this course seemed to be more about the personality profiles which was personally very interesting and extremely valuable. Vivienne was fabulous! She made the day really fun and guided us through the booklet with confidence and enthusiasm. I come away with new skills on the art of minute taking."
NZ Nurses Organisation (NZNO)
"This was a fantastic training course and I enjoyed Ian's style as I have a training background and he definitely had me interested from the start. I enjoyed his sense of humour and the way he broke up the day and learning modules. Ian is an asset to the course content. It was a fantastic day thank you!"
Ministry for Vulnerable Children, Oranga Tamariki
"Very enjoyable day. The focus on the actual structure of meetings I found very useful. We need to make changes at work but will depend on the CEO. Thanks!"
New Zealand Oil & Gas
"Kirsten was amazing, lovely person, very knowledgeable and helpful and ran the course at a great pace with lots of interaction. Very helpful, informative course."
Unitec
"Kirsten was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and made the course enjoyable. We had a great interactive bunch of people."
Homes of Choice
"The most useful part of the course, was the exercise, when we watched the YouTube video of a meeting where half of the class had to write up minutes and the other half had to write what went wrong in the meeting."
Department of Internal Affairs
Improve your meeting outcomes in New Zealand with 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, the skills taught in this course will enable managers and staff 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 settings.
See the Live Online tab for the course outline for the live online course
Topic 1
Minute Taking
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Topic 2
Your Winning Style and How Best to Communicate with Your Manager |
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)
Topic 1
Your Winning Style and How Best to Communicate with Your Manager |
Topic 2
Active Listening
|
Topic 3
Set up for Success – Plan beforehand
|
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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