HOW TO WRITE MINUTES FOR A MEETING

HOW TO WRITE MINUTES FOR A MEETING?

Meeting minutes and follow-up actions are crucial to manage any project. Good minutes provides a clear direction and guidelines for the whole team to take action within a defined timeline. In other words, all team members, whether or not they have participated in the meeting, should share the same understanding. Efficient meeting minutes provides the next steps, and what is expected from anyone involved.

Join ACES Learning Hub and upgrade your minutes writing skills. We guide and equip your team with simple yet powerful techniques to write clearer and more accurate minutes. In this workshop, you will learn key principles and methodologies about how to write minutes for a meeting. In addition, you will be able to put this knowledge into practice with real-life case scenarios. In conclusion, after this workshop, you will find writing minutes a breeze!

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN “EFFECTIVE MINUTES-WRITING SKILLS”:

Skills of an effective minutes-taker

• Develop and enhance core competencies for taking notes.
• Learn different methods and tricks to taking notes. As a result, you will learn how to save time when writing minutes after the meeting.

Listening for information and emotions

• Distinguish relevant and important information.
• Turn Singlish into professional language.
• Transform emotional discussions into practical business language.
• Know when to interrupt, summarise and confirm.

Finalising the minutes for meeting

• Use the ABC principle to write efficiently.
• Understand where and when to use sense past/present/future tenses, capital letters, active voice vs passive voice.