Board meetings are fundamental to effective corporate governance and decisionmaking processes. These meetings serve as a platform for board members, executives, senior leaders, etc to determine the overall direction of the organization, while ensuring goals align with stakeholder/ shareholder interest. Through open discussions and analysis, these meetings guide the long-term success of the organization as they provide a framework for informed decision-making that ensures operations occur legally, transparently and ethically.

These discussions are an integral part of the corporate governance and decision-making processes, as such having an accurate record of such events, through minute-taking, is imperative. Minute-taking serves as a technique to ensure that all discussions and resulting decisions or resolutions are clearly documented and can be used as reference in the future. This strategy also ensures that board meeting activities remain transparent, promote accountability and result in decisions that are made within the required legal and ethical parameters.

Minute-taking at board meetings is very crucial to an organization’s wellbeing, and should thus be completed efficiently, accurately, and without bias. As such this minute-taking workshop aims to provide participants with the required skillset to produce professional, accurate and high-quality minutes that clearly capture the discussions, decisions, and resulting actions from board meetings.