Skills Builder Overview

This short skills building course, will help you to better understand how to record the minutes of meetings. Practical and concise, it explains the difference between verbatim and discursive minutes and provides a suggested structure for minutes suitable for board or general purpose meetings.

Completion Time

This skills builder takes approximately 10 minutes to complete.

Target Audience

‘Taking Meeting Minutes‘ is designed for people who sit on non-profit committees or boards.

Related Courses

‘Taking Meeting Minutes ‘ is a companion resource for the ‘Setting Meeting Agendas‘ skills builder available on this platform.

Cost

This resource may be accessed free-of-charge.

Enroll on Course

To enroll on the course, please enter the valid details in the enroll section at the bottom of the page.

Commence the Course & General Instructions

Once you are enrolled on the course:

1. Please progress through each of the lessons in the course sequentially.
2. To move from one lesson page to another, click on the ‘Mark Complete’ button located at the end of each lesson page. Once you have clicked the ‘Mark Complete’ button, you may then progress to the next lesson in the course.
3. Some lesson pages contain interactive resources. To open an interactive resource, click the orange ‘Launch’ button contained on the web page. Click on the ‘Next’ buttons or arrows within each interactive resource to move from one screen to the next within each of these resources.
4. Document names in blue within a lesson or topic page denote that the document is available to download. Just click on the document name (in blue) to open it for viewing and download.

To start the course, click on the lesson 1 heading in the table below.