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Course Length: 1 Day |
Readers often complain that meeting minutes hide nuggets
of action and decision inside wordy, often useless, text.
In this one-day workshop, you'll discover how to condense meeting
hours to minutes--minutes that meet the needs of today's reader-in-a-rush.
Topics include preparing to take notes, gathering and organizing
the raw material, writing clearly and concisely, formatting the
final draft, and indexing minutes for quick recovery. With
guidance from the instructor, you will think through and create
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Before
the Meeting:
Identifying your readers.
Defining the purpose of your meeting notes.
Predicting what information your readers will need.
Designing note-taking aids.
During
the Meeting:
Boosting note-taking speed.
The note-taker's proper role: just seen, or seen and heard.
Recognizing group decisions without motions.
What about tape recorders?
Handling digressions.
How to participate and record simultaneously.
After the Meeting:
Selecting final content: how to decide relevance.
Presenting material in a readable format.
Verbal shortcuts for repetitive idea patterns.
Increasing readability.
Retrieving key information with easy-to-maintain indexes. |
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1. Learn what readers really need and want in their minutes.
2. Save time by taking notes efficiently.
3. Know what to keep and what to omit from your final minutes.
4. Clear up questions by writing clearly and concisely.
5. Format your minutes so people will read them.
6. Index the minutes so you can find things later.
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Larry
Peabody's
Writing Minutes
and Meeting Notes |
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2023 CLASSES |
APRIL 3
LA Dept. of Water & Power
VIRTUAL CLASS
APRIL 4
LA Dept. of Water & Power
VIRTUAL CLASS
APRIL 10
Health Care Services Agency
San Leandro, CA
VIRTUAL CLASS
APRIL 26
LA Dept. of Water & Power
VIRTUAL CLASS
MAY 9
WA St. Dept. of Enterprise Services
Olympia, WA
Registration Contact: DES Training Center
MAY 10
LA Dept. of Water & Power
VIRTUAL CLASS
JULY 11
WA St. Dept. of Enterprise Services
Olympia, WA
Registration Contact: DES Training Center
AUGUST 15
Northwest Public Power Assoc.
Spokane, WA
NOVEMBER 7
WA St. Dept. of Enterprise Services
Olympia, WA
Registration Contact: DES Training Center
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