Effective Minutes Writing

Minutes writing follows a format that is depending on what a company requires. An individual’s writing skills must be sufficient to produce a complete and comprehensive recounting of a meeting.  Precise minute-taking is essential for the purpose of meetings.

Discover how to apprehend and document the most important information, improve your skills, and increase your knowledge required to accomplish and unlock techniques for this core skill in your role.

After the workshop, you will be able to:

• Understand the importance of meeting minutes
• Familiarise with preparation for pre, during and after meeting
• Develop good listening skills as a note taker
• Structure and organise notes using note taking methods
• Summarise key points of discussions and decisions
• Proofread to ensure accuracy
  • Organising and presenting information effectively
  • Learn to use appropriate language for minutes
• Handling common problems
• Create a personal action plan/checklist for improving minute writing

Outline

• Introduction to minutes of meeting
  

• Preparing for meeting

• Preparing the agenda

• Introduction to note taking

• Roles and responsibility of Note Taker

• Note taking techniques

• Note taking methods (4 methods)

• Preparing the Minutes

  – Format

  – Writing skills

  – Tone and Style

• Proofreading

• Distribution of minutes

• Handling Common Problems

• Personal Action Plan/Checklist for Improving Minute-Taking

Type	Early bird	Normal	Members (Join/renew here)
Fee (S$) excl. of GST	380.00	410.00	350.00
Fee (S$) incl. of 9% GST	414.20	446.90	381.50
50% UTAP disbursement amount (if eligible)
For ≤ 39 years old	Total Nett Fee Paid x 50% (capped at $250)**
For ≥ 40 years old	Total Nett Fee Paid x 50% (capped at $500)**
*9% GST is based on full course fee
**NTUC Starter Members capped at $200

Grants (if applicable)

• Union Training Assistance Programme (UTAP):

  NTUC members enjoy 50% unfunded* course fee support for up to $250 per year when you sign up for courses supported under UTAP. NTUC Members aged 40 and above can enjoy higher funding support at up to $500 per year for courses attended between 1 July 2020 to 31 December 2025. NTUC Starter members can enjoy funding support at up to $200 per year. For more information on how to submit UTAP claims, click here.

  *Unfunded course fee refers to the balance course fee payable after applicable government subsidies. This excludes material fees, registration fees, misc. fees etc.