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                  McMinutes:
  A Training Manual for Secretaries

NEW FOR SECRETARIES:  A TRAINING MANUAL WITH        INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS,   FORMS AND BOOK

                                    From Robert McConnell Productions

 Do you need to learn how to take and write proper Minutes of a Meeting?  How to write a proper notification letter of meetings?  How to prepare an agenda? How to properly fulfill the duties of a Secretary in an organization?  Then this NEW set of VIDEOS and a TRAINING MANUAL is for you.  McMinutes will take you step by step in short, easy to understand lessons the process of preparing for a meeting, composing an agenda, writing a notification letter to the members, preparing a presiding script for the president, and how to prepare a form to use to take the minutes of a meeting.  You will then watch a meeting in which you will be shown how to record the actions of the meeting that will be recorded in the minutes.  The TRAINING MANUAL then instructs you paragraph by paragraph how to take the information from the form and write minutes.  MCMINUTES not only will train you, but any future secretaries of your organization.

Here’s what McMinutes will do for you:

• The Instructional VIDEO will tell you specifically what the duties of a Secretary are and how to perform these duties.  It will show you how to take the forms we have designed for preparing an agenda and taking minutes and use them in a meeting. It also instructs the secretary in basic parliamentary procedure so that she can know which motions and procedures need to go into the minutes.  It also explains the most common secondary motions and how to write them in the minutes.  And finally there is a section on the most confusing motion of all—the motion to Amend.  It shows primary and secondary amendments, how to keep track of the amending process on a motion and how to put the final motion as amended in the minutes.  With this information, the secretary will never get lost again during this process and will be able to help both the president and the members know which amendment they are discussing and going to take the vote.
• The Meetings VIDEO will give you a play-by-play account of a simulated meeting.  An event will happen in the meeting, then the VIDEO will Show and Tell you how to Record that event on the Minutes Motions Form that we have designed to take the minutes of a meeting. Then it will explain how to transfer those notes to become official Minutes according to “Robert’s Rules of Order,” and common parliamentary practice.
• The Meetings video also provides a Simulated Short Meeting for you to practice and test the skills you have just learned with out any instruction from us.  Then there is an Appendix in the TRAINING MANUAL for you to compare your minutes with ours.  You’ll be pleasantly surprised to see how fast you have mastered this skill.
• The TRAINING MANUAL has lessons on each step of the process of preparing for meetings, taking minutes of meetings and then writing the minutes.  It has lessons on grammar, approving the minutes, indexing the minutes, taking minutes of board meetings and other helpful information so that you can perform your duties as a Secretary in a professional and organized manner.
• A computer DISC also comes with this package.  It has all the forms that we have designed to help you and your organization fulfill its obligations in a meeting.  We have forms for the secretary, motions forms for the members, an agenda template, and tellers’ forms for the Tellers committee, a sample presiding script, and more.  It is designed so that all you have to do is copy it from the disc, transfer it to your computer, make changes to fit your organization, and use it in a meeting.  Thus saving you time to do other things.
• You also get our BOOK, the very popular “Robert’s Rules of Order:  Simplified & Applied.”
• This package includes 2 VIDEOS, one Instructional and one Meetings VIDEO

 including play-by-play descriptions of simulated meetings.  It also includes 50+ page TRAINING MANUAL, with helpful appendices, and a copy of our book, ROBERT’S RULES OF ORDER: SIMPLIFIED AND APPLIED.  Finally, there is a 3.5” “floppy” COMPUTER DISK with handy Minutes forms on it so that writing minutes (using your computer) will be easily accomplished.  All the essential elements of the minutes are indicated in the form.  All you have you do is type over the sample minutes with your specific information and VOILA there you have completed professional looking Minutes with all the elements required by “Robert’s Rules of Order.”  This can now be easily stored on your computer and printed out to make the required “hard copy” paper Book of Minutes for your organization.   McMinutes: A Training Manual for Secretaries comes in an attractive 3-ring binder including the 2 videos, the training manual, the computer disk, and book, the very popular “Robert’s Rules of Order:  Simplified & Applied,” all kept in one place so they don’t get lost or separated.

• McMinutes:  A Training Manual for Secretaries $259.95 TOTAL.   VISA/MC/AMEX    Purchase orders accepted from organizations.  Order Now! Save money while offer lasts.

 Robert McConnell Productions
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Gig Harbor WA 98335
1-800-532-4017           1-800-948-8463 fax
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