What will you learn?
- Potential reputational and legal implications that come with minutes
- How to meet compliance requirements as well as stakeholder and organizational needs
- How to record minutes with clarity, logic and good grammar
- Neutrality, and how to strike the right balance between too much and too little information
How long is this webinar? - two and a half hours
Shelagh plans to spend up to two and a half hours with you for this course, to ensure you have time to ask questions and have them answered. If we wrap up early, that's bonus time for you!
Who is this for?
Whether you're a novice assistant or experienced in recording meetings, this course is for you if you meet even one of the following criteria. You'll want to register if you're ...
- invested in producing quality minutes reflecting current standards
- new to your organization
- unsure of how much detail to include
- not certain what to include in, and exclude from, your minutes
- tired of trying hard, yet seeing multiple edits to your minutes
- lacking confidence in this aspect of your role
- scrambling to polish off minutes in time to include them in an agenda package
- struggling to balance between concise minutes and including relevant information
- maintaining the status quo, using standards you inherited from someone else
- someone who's never had training in how to record meetings
- someone who's gone years without a refresher on how to produce concise, relevant minutes
This course represents potential to save you time and frustration, and it just may do the same for all your stakeholders who read your minutes!
Why choose this course rather than other webinars on minutes?
First of all, you'll enjoy learning with Shelagh! You'll find other courses that may be less expensive, yet it's unlikely you'll find one with someone who walked your walk for decades and understands the challenges and nuances of your role as a recorder to the extent Shelagh does.
Shelagh has produced thousands of sets of meeting minutes, and gives you straightforward information on how to meet current standards. She began recording meetings in a corporate sector C-Suite, and went on to hone those skills in the public sector. She wrapped up her office career after more than a decade with a board of discerning directors, which elevated her minutes game even further. Shelagh guides you on current standards you can apply whether you record board meetings or less formal committee gatherings, and she delivers practical tips in an engaging manner.
Included: a workbook to follow up on our session
Shelagh has developed a PDF workbook so you can reflect on the insights she offers and apply them to your minutes. Shelagh provides this resource for you on a password-secured page of her Exceptional EA website.
What if you sign up but can't attend the live session?
All registrants, whether or not you attend the live webinar, will have 90 days' access to a recording of our session. Whether you attend our live session or register solely for the recording, you'll find it helpful to play back this webinar, in part or in full.
Our start time for this live course
We'll begin this live webinar at 10:00 AM PDT/GMT-8 hours. Please check a time zone converter to sort out what time of day you'll want to add this to your calendar.
How do you join the live webinar?
You can expect a message from Shelagh's email account to provide you the webinar link. You may wish to add this email address – ExceptionalEAs@gmail.com – to your contact list, so the message isn't blocked.
What's included in the registration fee?
- Whether you register to attend the live session or to watch the recording of our session on demand at your convenience, you'll have 90 days of on demand access to the recording.
- Shelagh has prepared a PDF workbook for you. You'll have access to it on her Exceptional EA website for the duration of this on demand offer, and you'll find it a handy resource as you prepare to record future meetings.
- After you've participated live or watched the webinar recording, please email Shelagh if you'd like a certificate of attendance for tracking and showcasing your professional development.
A sampling of participants' feedback on Shelagh's webinars
· "Shelagh is an amazing speaker and touches upon relevant and new perspectives. She not only provided a workbook but graciously included examples in her slides. I look forward to attending future webinars presented by her."
· "Shelagh turns a mundane subject into a lively presentation! Her sense of humor and creative slide images add value to the presentation. I highly recommend attending Shelagh's seminar. I will definitely attend future seminars presented by her. "
· "The material was easy to follow, it was clear and concise just as Shelagh teaches our minutes should be. The personal examples were also very helpful putting everything into context."
· "Your advice was both practical and inspirational and, whilst I will never enjoy writing minutes I will not dread them quite so much in future and will complete them as quickly as possible."
· "I loved that Shelagh gave examples to us through out her presentation. She was well prepared and able to explain the reason behind her recommendations."
· "There were many 'a-ha' moments during the webinar. Especially when Shelagh took polls of the group. Many things made me feel like I was on the right track and others made me glad I had taken this webinar!"
· "Thank you Shelagh for reinforcing that I am pretty much on the right track with my minutes. Having previously been lacking in confidence and motivation I feel I am in a much better place to take on my next Senior Management meeting."
· "Very good tips"
· "I liked that it was what I signed up for and that there were pics and a workbook to follow up with."
· "I loved the slides!"
· "Sheila was an excellent speaker and brought up many relevant and new perspectives. I've been a EA for over 20 years ..."
· "Your slide decks are always well prepared, engaging, and informative."
