Minute taking content?

possible exercise

Hi Debbie,

I actually run a site which provides read-to-run training material (www.thematerialbank.co.uk) and funnily enough I am just in the process of preparing a minute taking session for publication on the site!

The sort of exercises I would suggest are:

1. Read the group a short story (could be a well known child's book for example). Ask them to take notes whilst you do. Then ask them a few simple questions and, based only on the notes they have taken, see whether or not they can answer the questions. Or get them to swap their notes around and someone else uses their notes to answer the question!

2. Set an exercise which gets them to develop their own shorthand – they don't need to learn proper shorthand to take effective minutes after all, all they need to do is have a personal code that they understand so they can type up their notes properly back in the office.

3. Create some flashcards with all the things you would expect in formal and in-formal minutes and then ask them in small groups to divide them up – what should be in a formal set of minutes and what should be in in-formal. You could take this one step further and ask to set out the flashcards in order of how they should be presented in the minutes themselves.

Alternatively, you could wait few days and then download our session 😉 lol

I hope this has been helpful, good luck with the rest of the design/development! 🙂

2 Responses

Fiona15 says:

June 25, 2013 at 12:57 pm

possible exercise

Hi Debbie,

I actually run a site which provides read-to-run training material (www.thematerialbank.co.uk) and funnily enough I am just in the process of preparing a minute taking session for publication on the site!

The sort of exercises I would suggest are:

1. Read the group a short story (could be a well known child's book for example). Ask them to take notes whilst you do. Then ask them a few simple questions and, based only on the notes they have taken, see whether or not they can answer the questions. Or get them to swap their notes around and someone else uses their notes to answer the question!

2. Set an exercise which gets them to develop their own shorthand – they don't need to learn proper shorthand to take effective minutes after all, all they need to do is have a personal code that they understand so they can type up their notes properly back in the office.

3. Create some flashcards with all the things you would expect in formal and in-formal minutes and then ask them in small groups to divide them up – what should be in a formal set of minutes and what should be in in-formal. You could take this one step further and ask to set out the flashcards in order of how they should be presented in the minutes themselves.

Alternatively, you could wait few days and then download our session 😉 lol

I hope this has been helpful, good luck with the rest of the design/development! 🙂

F.
bryanedwards says:

March 15, 2016 at 2:18 pm

Minute Taking

Hi Debbie

I don't have any exercises but can help with a tip sheet with sample layout of meeting minutes. Go to our free trainer resources at http://www.abctrainingsolutions.biz/miscellaneous_free_download.html and you'll find at the bottom of the page.

Hope that helps

Bryan

http://www.abctrainingsolutions.biz