Effective Report and Minute Taking

Start: Dec 1, 2025
End: Dec 12, 2025
Venue: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Format: Two weeks
Duration: 2 weeks
Start: Jun 9, 2025
End: Jun 20, 2025
Venue: ESAMI HQ, Arusha, Tanzania
Format: Two weeks
Duration: 2 weeks
Start: May 12, 2025
End: May 22, 2025
Venue: Lusaka, Zambia
Format: Two weeks
Duration: 2 weeks
Statement of Need

Effective communication is a key element in good governance. Governments, parastatal and private industry are expected to demonstrate good governance to their various stakeholders. Effective communication increases productivity; enhances employee and other stakeholder interpersonal relationships; improves problem solving and decision making. A report becomes one of the most important tools for effective and good governance. ESAMI has designed this action-oriented course specifically to enable respective officers prepare effective reports and minutes of meetings, besides other written communication tools

Who Attends

Managers and other officers who are expected to write various reports or act as secretaries in meetings.

How participants will benefit

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Appreciate the importance of effective communication in organizations;
  • Write effective reports and minutes that are a true representation of deliberations of meetings;
  • Apply report writing skills to enhance relationships  with other colleagues in the organization and the customers through effective communication;
  • Improve upon and sustain a positive image of the organization.

 

Topics Include
  • Fundamentals of effective interpersonal organizational communication;
  • Fundamentals of information and knowledge management;
  • Effective writing skills; writing formal reports;
  • Writing other organizational communication tools;
  • Audience definition;
  • Writing an abstract/summary;
  • Reports formats;
  • Oral presentation skills;
  • Writing effective minute writing and managing meetings effectively inter alia.
Fees

US$ 1600 to cover tuition and training materials.