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Half-day

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In-house

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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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    This session 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.

  • Our trainer

    Tahira (Tara) Hussain Tedx Speaker

    MA MSc CBP PG Dip CBT PG Cert APIMH BA (Hons) MBPsS

    Tara has extensive experience working in the statutory and voluntary sector. She has a 29-year career in mental health, community development, charity and the housing sector. She has a successful track record in consultancy, training and project management. Tara is qualified as a cognitive behavioural psychotherapist and she is a member of the BABCP and BPS.

    Working as a training associate for national agencies she has utilised her experience in the housing, health and care sector and delivered a menu of training packages aimed to support staff, stakeholders and residents on a range of topics including mental health and wellbeing, safeguarding children & adults, equality, diversity, inclusion, professional boundaries & effective psychological intervention.

We can bring this course to you.
If you have five or more staff interested our in-house training offers great value for money.

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