Description

Master the essentials of documenting legal meeting records with our practical webinar, designed for non-lawyers and non-chartered secretaries. Learn best practices, mandatory requirements, and get access to templates for effective minute-taking and agenda preparation

Have you ever been asked (or told) to take the Minutes for a duly incorporated company, society, or trust board meeting? Are you just copying the prior Minutes format without understanding modern best practice and legal minimums?

Do you know what MUST be in the record versus the nice-to-haves that trained company secretaries know to include (and exclude)?

Learn what you need to do at a minimum to fulfill the requirements for the Minutes as a legal record of the meeting. Agenda preparation will be covered for those who find themselves serving in this role for more than one meeting.

This is a PRACTICAL not legalistic webinar aimed at those fulfilling a role who are not qualified lawyers or chartered secretaries.

Templates and simple, practical how-to guidance that will satisfy mandatory requirements and enable sound recording of Minutes for the legal record (Minutes are called “letters to an unknown judge” by qualified company secretaries).

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• what should and should not go into the minutes
• the problems (and solutions) for minutes of narration versus minutes of resolution
• protocols for in camera minutes
• core knowledge to record the substance, verify, secure and store Minutes
• Agenda preparation and draft Minute preparation
• Unanimous resolutions in lieu of a meeting protocol
• Quorums, Interests declarations, recording voting

SUITED TO

This webinar is targeted at SME administrators, executives and staff (whether commercial or NFP), advisors and anyone fulfilling the board secretary role who hasn’t undergone formal training.

PRESENTER

Dr Karen Martyn, Governance and Secretariat Advisor, DocMartyn Ltd.

Dr Karen Martyn has taught governance and secretariat for the IOD, Commonwealth Association for Corporate Governance, Massey University. She is a popular presenter and workshop leader for legal and accounting entities. In 2007, she qualified as a Chartered Secretary, the international professional body for company secretaries, working in New Zealand and Australia for societies, trusts and companies.
She edited and contributed four chapters to Corporate Governance – A Practical Handbook, a governance book filled with templates, guidelines and examples for SMEs published by CCH.