Meetings & Minutes @ UWS
Facilitator/Trainer Dennise Harris - B. English, M. Modern English Language, M. Adult Ed.
Intended for all staff.
Description
Many staff members have to run meetings and take minutes yet have never received formal training in either skill. Some staff find meetings difficult to manage; they find it hard to get actions done and some find that their original training hasn't equipped them to take the kind of minutes the modern university requires.
This is a highly practical course that emphasises saving time in meetings. Participants are given many tips and formats to adapt for their own use.
The full day program looks at the whole process of a meeting.
Learning Objectives
You will leave this workshop:
- knowing your responsibilities as a convenor and being able to write a sensible and very useful agenda
- knowing how to save time in your meetings
- being able to solve typical meeting problems like managing people popping in and out; straying from the agenda and managing difficult behaviour
- being able take more succinct minutes
- knowing what to put in and what to leave out of minutes
- knowing how to get the minutes out quickly.
You will also understand what records are expected kept on the committee file and how the new Government Information Public Access Act (2009) will have an impact on the minutes you take.
The course includes many time-saving tips and checklists.
CANCELLATION FEE: $250.00 - if cancelled within 14 days of session
This course is part of the Career Development program.
