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Essential Meeting Skills
Brendan McCarthy:Representation & Volunteering Manager (Acting)
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Aims and Objectives
•Identify what some of the essential skills are to be effective in a meeting
•Understand the role and importance of the chair person and the minute taker
•Understand the key tasks and challenges when attending meetings
•Identify potential strategies and solutions to common problems arising in meetings
•Enable participants to become more efficient and confident in their role as Chair/Minute Taker/attendee
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What meetings might you attend?
Most Reps will attend an average of 3 University meetings a year, these are:
Student Staff Consultative Committee (commonly referred to as SSCCs)
How often? 3 x a Year Who attends? All Course Reps
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What meetings might you attend?
Faculty Forum
How often? 3 x a Year
Who attends? Chairs of SSCC’s
This is an informal meeting between the SSCC chairs and one senior staff member known as the Associated Dean for Students (ADS).
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What meetings might you attend?
Faculty Board
How often? 3 x a Year
Who attends? A selection of SSCC chairs nominated at Faculty Forum.
Looks at the key issues and areas of best practice from across your Faculty.
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What meetings might you attend?
Board of Studies
How often? 2 x a Year
Who attends? Nominated SSCC Chairs
This meeting looks more at the Quality Assurance side of your course.
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What meetings might you attend?
Course Rep Council
How often? 2 x a Year
Who attends? Any Rep with welfare issues Twice a year your Faculty Rep will lead Course Rep Council.
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Who’s Who?
• The Chair – within all University and Union meetings there will be a Chair who facilitates the session
• The Minute Taker – within all meetings there will be someone responsible for taking minutes; capturing key information
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Exercise
Work in small groups to discuss and decide on what you believe
the role and tasks of the Chair or Minute Taker might be…
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FEEDBACK
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Role of the Chair
The role of the Chair is to ensure all participants in a meeting can contribute to a structured discussion which leads to a clear decision at the end of the meeting.
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Shout Out!
What do you think some of the skills are that a Chair
would need to make sure this happens?
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Key Skills
Impartial Assertive Listening
AwarenessSummarising/Facilitation
Timing
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A Good Chair
Helps the meeting to run smoothly and efficiently.
They will make sure that:•all the business is discussed•everyone’s views are heard•clear decisions are reached•order is kept•the meeting starts and finishes on time.
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•Will be thinking about the meeting overall, not just the topic under discussion
•Always aims to draw a balance between hearing everyone’s views and getting through the business.
•Never uses their position as chair as an opportunity to put forward their views to the exclusion of others, or to dominate the meeting.
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Role of the Minute Taker
A minute taker is the attendee at meeting whose role it is to record the minutes of the meeting. Their job is to either solely take notes, or they may be an active participant in the meeting who has taken on the role for that one specific meeting.
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Key Skills
CommunicationSummarising
Listening
Quick thinking Note-taking/
writing
Timing
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A Good Minute Taker
Ensures the key elements of the meeting are noted and accurately recorded
They will make sure that:• They record what is happening in the meeting• Records are done in a structured way• They have noted who is and isn’t in attendance• They will be confident in asking others for clarification if needed• The minutes are circulated and accuracy is checked
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• You don’t need to write down absolutely everything word for word! Identify key points…
• Keep emotion out of the minutes e.g don’t say The Treasurer angrily said… use The
Treasurer was in disagreement because…
• If you feel it inappropriate to ask for clarification, note down who you need to speak to and catch up with them at the end
• Clearly reflect the order of discussion even if it does not match the agenda
• Take a laptop and/or notepad
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Key Tasks: Before the meeting…
Chair Minute taker
Liaise with minute taker to address any issues
Liaise with the Chair over the agenda
The agenda sets out things you want to discuss
Set out a template in advance – usually provided by the School/Department
Map out the running order of the meeting with the agenda
Find out who is and isn’t attending
Read the minutes of the last meeting – are there any matters arising?
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Key Tasks: At the start of the meeting…
Chair Minute taker
Welcome everyone and introductions
Note down the names of all in attendance
Ensure people know what the meeting is about
Create a sign-in sheet to help you
Set meeting roles/code of conduct
Ensure you have a copy of the agenda and minutes of the last meeting for yourself
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Exercise
In order to make sure meetings run smoothly it’s important to make sure that all
attendees agree to follow the same rules.
In groups, using the flipchart, outline a code of conduct for a
meeting…
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FEEDBACK
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Examples of meeting rulesOutline the rules at the beginning
Ask people to speak ‘through the chair’
Don’t interrupt other people
Stick to the item on the agenda
Don’t talk amongst yourselves
Respect other people’s views
Keep contributions short and to the point
Start and finish the meeting on time
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Key Tasks: In the meeting…
Chair Minute takerGetting everyone through the business on time
Address people in your notes by position rather than by name (e.g. the Level 4 Course Rep said…)
Involve everyone Don’t panic!Dealing with difficult people Write whatever works for you at
the time
Try not to refer to people by their name of gender. Use positions where possible
If you need clarification on any points make a note of the person’s name you need to contact afterwards
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Key Tasks: At the end of the meeting…
Chair
Summarise decisions taken and action points to be followed up – who is responsible and by when?
Agree a date for the next meeting
Agree any special items that will need to be put on the agenda of the next meeting
Ensure that the minutes are written up, are checked by the Chair and sent out to attendees in good time
Minute taker
Summarise decisions and action points – note who is responsible and deadlines
Ensure that the minutes are written up promptly
Ensure minutes are checked by the Chair and circulated to be checked and approved
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Most of you will probably have your Student Staff Consultative Committees coming up…
Here’s some examples of what NOT to do and some examples of what to do in your meetings.
http://youtu.be/2OGMxeJnZ7s
http://youtu.be/p05gf3z0pnU
Good Meeting Practice
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Templates
Here are some examples of what an agenda and minutes might look like for an SSCC meeting
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Questions....?