Duration
1 day
Location
Live virtual
Availability
Good
Suitable for: IA What does this mean?
Meetings are a vital part of everyday business. Successful meetings provide an essential forum for planning, debate, sharing information and decision-making. A carefully prepared, well managed and well recorded meeting can save valuable time and enable a business to meet its objectives. The chair and minute-taker play key roles in this.
This bespoke workshop covers the essentials of chairing a meeting effectively and efficiently, building rapport with attendees and teaching you how to take concise, accurate minutes. The materials will be tailored the client’s standard templates. It provides guidance as well as an opportunity to practice skills.
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It will help you to:
- Prepare for your role as Chair and minute taker
- Take accurate notes of key points and actions
- Practice skills to record information based on your organisation’s templates
- Explain your organisation’s requirements for record keeping to comply with scrutiny and audit.
Who should attend?
An essential workshop for everyone responsible for chairing a meeting in the workplace or taking minutes at meetings. Ideal as a refresher or for new staff.
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Our trainer
Tahira Hussain (MBPsS), has extensive experience working in the statutory and voluntary sector. She had a 22-year career in social work, mental health, community development and housing. Having worked in the social housing sector as part of an equality and diversity unit, Tahira has a successful track record in consultancy, training and project management. She is a graduate member of British Psychological Society (BPS) and the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP). She has worked as a mental health professional practitioner for a number of NHS Trusts nationally and is a private therapist providing assessment and treatment services to individuals, legal firms, schools and corporations. She is a qualified trainer on safeguarding, professional boundaries, equalities, stress management and personal development. As a freelance consultant her clients include local authorities, the education, health and housing sector nationwide.
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Price and booking
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Cancellations and substitutions
If you are unable to attend an event or public training course, please let us know in writing (email is fine) at least 48 hours before. Please email [email protected] Otherwise, a cancellation fee of £60 plus VAT will be chargeable. If you are using a package place to attend and do not inform us within the agreed time frame, then a place will be taken to cover your non-attendance. Cancellations must be made in writing, and will be acknowledged by HQN Limited.
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