This Notes and Minutes, Effective Communication and Productive Meetings course equips delegates with essential skills, techniques and best practices for conducting productive meetings.

Delegates will learn how to document valuable information through clear and accurate minute-taking, capture key facts, identify actions and produce meeting records that are useful, concise and appropriate for the audience.

Who Should Attend?

• Project Managers
• Team Leaders
• Supervisors
• Managers responsible for planning or delivering projects
• Team members who support projects and need a clearer understanding of the project process

Benefits From Attending

• Understand the basic principles and structure of successful project management.
• Learn how to define project objectives, scope, strategy and key milestones.
• Improve confidence when planning, organising and monitoring project work.
• Understand how to allocate responsibilities, resources and dependencies effectively.
• Develop communication and control techniques to keep projects on track.

Course Content

• Introduction to Projects: Understand what projects are and the benefits of managing them well.
• Project Initiation: Define objectives, scope, strategy and expected outcomes.
• Project Organisation: Structure work, identify milestones and organise the project approach.
• Work Breakdown: Break projects into manageable tasks and stages.
• Detailed Planning: Identify dependencies, responsibilities and resource requirements.
• Resource Allocation: Allocate people, time and resources effectively.
• Controlling Projects: Monitor progress, identify issues and take corrective action.
• Communication: Communicate clearly with team members, stakeholders and decision-makers.
• Personal Qualities: Explore motivation, delegation, communication and leadership styles.