Meeting Management and Minute Taking

A well-planned board meeting sets the stage for clear, accurate, and meaningful board minutes. Together, board meetings and minutes create an essential record of decisions made, discussions held, and actions taken. Keeping your board moving forward!

This workshop is designed to help board members work as a team to improve the quality of its meetings and ensure what transpired within the meeting is recorded in an appropriate format and level of detail.

Learning Objectives:

• Common meeting guidelines, including rules of order
• The role of the board chair and secretary
• Steps to preparing for a board meeting
• Types of meetings and the best style of minutes for these meetings
• Identifying various styles of decision-making, including the consensus process
• In-camera meetings and how to record these minutes
• How to record action items in the minutes

Facilitator

Angela Busby is an educator, facilitator, and leadership professional with more than 25 years of experience in education, training, quality, and leadership development.

Angela’s work focuses on supporting individuals, teams, and non-profit organizations to strengthen leadership, navigate conflict, build healthy workplace relationships, and foster cultures that supports positive change. She holds credentials in adult education, quality management, emotional intelligence, conflict management, and professional coaching.

Accommodations

Volunteer Manitoba strives to host inclusive, accessible workshops that enable all individuals to engage fully. If you require any accommodations to participate in our training, please indicate so on the registration form.

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