“Fantastic course. Highly recommend people do it. Great resource for those who are looking to improve on their skills, or don't know where to start.”
Kirsty
SAAS
Writing meeting minutes that are straightforward, highly readable and action-focused are important to the success of your meetings. Gain the skills to record and prepare meeting minutes concisely and with purpose and learn the vital techniques to improve the quality of your minutes.
“Fantastic course. Highly recommend people do it. Great resource for those who are looking to improve on their skills, or don't know where to start.”
Kirsty
SAAS
“The tools I learnt in the course will help to make the minutes that I write more concise and effective. I have the confidence that I am taking minutes appropriately and understand my role more clearly as a minuter.”
Natalie
Primary Industries and Regions SA
“Very engaging and made me feel comfortable and confident to participate”
Jackie
Dept for Environment and Water
“Incredible presenter. Made the course easy to understand and follow.”
Tamara
DPTI
“Fantastic course. Highly recommend people do it. Great resource for those who are looking to improve on their skills, or don't know where to start.”
Kirsty
SAAS
“The tools I learnt in the course will help to make the minutes that I write more concise and effective. I have the confidence that I am taking minutes appropriately and understand my role more clearly as a minuter.”
Natalie
Primary Industries and Regions SA
“Very engaging and made me feel comfortable and confident to participate”
Jackie
Dept for Environment and Water
“Incredible presenter. Made the course easy to understand and follow.”
Tamara
DPTI
This half-day course gives you the tools to write more succinctly and effectively within your role in the public sector. Gain more confidence in your writing abilities to produce concise, high-quality and formal written materials. Learn practical techniques you can practice and apply within your own agency or department.
Struggling to keep your briefings concise? Finding it hard to get the message across and the result you want? Writing for ministers and senior executives presents challenges. This practical course will explore the planning and drafting essentials of brief writing, boosting your confidence in your ability to meet the needs of decision-makers.
Departments are often under-resourced with Risk/Internal Audit teams being smaller but having a huge responsibility across changing and emerging risks. This session introduces key risk management topics and aligns the teaching with specific risk thoughts within your Department. The session is designed to complement the current risk management practices of the state government and promotes the current risk management team.
This intensive course is designed to help public sector employees identify and apply key techniques in written communication. You will refresh yourself in your understanding of punctuation and grammar, to give you confidence in both your writing and proofreading abilities. If your job involves writing anything (for internal or external use) and you want to improve its power and its accuracy, then this is the course for you.
“A pleasure to attend such an informative course with such a skilled, articulate, friendly, professional and engaging presenter. It surpassed my expectations.”
Sharon
Department for Environment & Water
“I proof read every day so this course has really helped me sharpen my proof reading skills.”
Maddi
DCSI
“Brilliant presenter - engaging, dynamic and fun. No judgement and really pulled everyone into participating in a safe environment.”
Annon
“Nigel was very engaging and entertaining, while keeping on track with the course aims. He was able to draw the whole class in and get everyone involved, always asking for examples/issues from the participants, and providing/responding with his high level of skill, knowledge and guidance.”
Sharon
Department for Environment & Water
“Already I have noticed that I have a greater attention to detail. It feels like you go through mind training almost.”
Sue
SA Health
“Should be offered to all communications staff in agencies - I would highly recommend this course to my colleagues.”
Sharon
Department for Environment & Water
“The moment I got back to work I told my colleagues about how amazing this course was and the presenter.”
Zena
Dept for Education
" Relevant, engaging content tailored to individuals in the course."
Beth
"Overall understanding and knowledge will assist in understanding strategic intent and purpose behind processes."
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Learn the skills needed to research, compile and edit information to inform quality decisions. Through this program, you will be introduced to tools that you can apply to create an immediate improvement in the quality of reports and proposals and identify what decision-makers require from these documents.
The Presenter's (Mark's) ability to explain complex areas in simple terms for all to understand. Points of the course which were not relevant to specific people's work place were made relevant by Mark listening and adapting.
Frank
TAFE SA
“The presenter was very engaging and his knowledge and experience within and outside government was valuable.”
Vicki
Department for Health and Ageing
“I thought Mark was a fabulous facilitator, clearly very knowledgeable and experienced in the content. Best training I've done in a long time.”
Catherine
DCSI
“The [work]book is a valuable resource that I will reference for each report I write.”
John
DCS
“I will now become more involved with the preparation of briefings and reports for my Director.”
Lynette
Office of the Training Advocate
“[When I return to work I will] stop being overwhelmed at having to write a report, use the techniques provided in the course to structure the report and work out timings for each of the components from start to finish.”
Jo
Department of Human Services
“Presented in an interesting forum with relevant examples and tailored to a public sector environment using real time problems and examples, truly appreciated.”
Jayne
NALHN
“The course has provided with me with fantastic tools and strategies to manage projects more effectively and efficiently and provide easy updates to others as required.”
Sheree
SA Health, SAAS
““[When I get back to work] I'll be better able to prepare and manage tasks and projects by being better informed of the planning processes required.”
Simon
The SACE Board of South Australia
The presenter (Mark) provided some very useful examples based on his experience in the field and the folder with all the information is a very valuable resource. The diversity of worksites and experiences amongst the group also made for very interesting learning.”
Catherine
Department for Education
“Planning, structuring, content was great. Mark was fantastic; very knowledgeable.”
Simon
The SACE Board of South Australia
“My mindset around how I do projects was the big take away. At the moment I'm doing projects here and there in addition to my current work (non-project). This course helped identify how to take a project mindset, as opposed to a 'process'.”
Scott
Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure
"Mark's delivery was outstanding! He had such high energy for the entire duration of the course, he kept participants engaged, made us laugh and broke concepts down so that they were easy for all to understand. I would highly recommend Mark and this course to all of my colleagues interested in learning about Project Management!"
Montana
Department for Education