Overview
Agendas are the key tool for a successful meeting and minutes are a requirement at all local council meetings. This interactive course is designed for anyone who would like to acquire or improve their skills, knowledge and understanding of working effectively in meetings.
Recognise how best to prepare both agendas and minutes. Consider the best style and variations in content for agendas. Find out how to practice your skills of listening, note taking and writing. Understand the formalities and legal duties of minute taking, logging and signing.
These sessions last in the region of an hour each.
These sessions are ideal for:
- New clerks
- Deputies
- Committee Managers
- Aspiring Administration Assistants
- Current clerks looking to refine their meeting skills or to acquire new techniques to further increase their effectiveness at meetings
From One Clerk To Another
A series hosted by clerks for clerks to help you gain further understanding, training and advice on various aspects of your job. By sharing experiences, creating a dialogue and demonstrating that clerks are not alone with various issues that have arisen throughout your career, it enables us to grow stronger in our profession. The aim of these sessions is to educate and raise awareness between clerks on a wide range of subjects; from daily skills, finance, communication & social media, communities, and emergency planning to name a few.
Dates
Session one: Wednesday 2 July, 11:00 – 12:00
Session two: Wednesday 9 July, 11:00 – 12:00
Price
Members: £60 + VAT
Non-Members: £70 + VAT
CPD points
Claim 1 CPD point for attending each session!
Accessing your joining link
You can now login to your SLCC portal to access training materials, including joining information, certificates, recordings, and presentations—all in one place.
We will no longer send joining instructions via email. Instead, we invite all delegates to log into their SLCC account, ‘Training & Events’ section, to access their joining link.
“Since updating our agendas following your training session our meetings have changed for the better. Bringing the clerks report to the start of the meeting and tidying up the rest of the order has made meetings flow better, speeded them up and made them more productive. Thank you for improving the life of this clerk. I am certainly encouraging colleagues to take up refresher training (as this was for me) because it is so easy to get into bad habits.”
Jason Mawer, Clerk to Warfield Parish Council
“New and experienced clerks will benefit from this training, not only for its practical advice on agenda and minute writing but also for the clear and concise restatement of the legal and procedural requirements for the conduct of meetings.”
Jon Brumwell, Haughton Parish Council
“As someone new to clerking meetings, these sessions allowed me to understand what is legally and professionally required from minutes and agendas.”
Louis Linsley, Martlesham Parish Council
About the Trainer
Yvonne Colverson has been a clerk for over 18 years. She has worked with small parish councils and larger town councils, and gained her Community Governance CertHE in 2016. Yvonne qualified to teach adults in 2018 and has since delivered sector specific training for the SLCC.
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SLCC is always keen to respond to members’ needs for training. If you would like to register an interest in having a particular course delivered via webinar or in your region, please let us know.
