A 90-minute virtual workshop
Taking minutes is a much under-rated skill. It can be challenging at the best of times. So how do you do it for virtual meetings?
This trainer-led session will help. It’s a very practical programme which explores the issues specific to minuting on-line meetings and gives solutions to some of the trickier problems.
learning objectives
- Identify how to adapt their current minute-taking skills to on-line meetings
- Plan and prepare for a meeting
- Follow a line of discussion
- Work in partnership with a remote Chair
- Deal confidently with minute-taking challenges
Expert trainer
Miranda has more than twenty years’ experience as an independent learning and development consultant and trainer.
Session outline
1. Welcome
- Programme objectives
- Personal introductions
2. Adapting minute-taking to virtual meetings
- How is it different?
- What changes in approach are needed?
3. Preparation
- Preparing for the meeting
- Technology and equipment
- Dress and personal presentation
- Liaising with the Chair
- Practical preparation tips
4. Minuting tips
- Managing the ‘techie’ elements, eg. poor sound/visual quality
- Knowing who is speaking
- Following a line of discussion
- What if I don’t hear or understand?
- Tips for producing a set of minutes
5. Session review
- Summary, key learning points, feedback and close
