Note Taking Training Course : How to Take Notes & Triple Your Learning Skills

Learn to take better and faster notes. Effective note-taking is a core skill that professionals at all levels can improve upon—and this course shows you how. It explains how to decide when to take linear vs. visual notes, how to effectively listen, how to document action plans, and how to effectively write meeting minutes.

Instructor Moses also explores techniques for taking notes more quickly, including capturing ideas rather than sentences, improving typing speed, and using simple shorthand.

The final, bonus chapter walks through a number of note-taking templates from XMind software that help with project planning, SWOT meetings, timelines, and more. This chapter is optional and is not necessary for course completion.

Topics include:

• Exploring the keys to active listening
• Focusing on the ideas
• Capturing an action plan
• Brainstorming
• Taking notes while reading
• Creating to-do lists, project plans, and meeting notes

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files
• Using the challenges
• Exploring the keys to active listening
• Focusing on ideas instead of sentences
• Capturing the action plan in your meeting minutes
• The Cornell note taking system
• Brainstorming and collecting ideas
• Avoiding excessive highlighting and too many notes
• Taking more effective notes while reading
• Mind mapping while reading
• The read and recall method
• Challenge Read and recall
• Solution Read and recall
• Bonus Installing the XMind software application
• Creating a to do list
• Developing a plan
• Developing a multiproject plan
• Designing a chart
• Organizing your notes
• Walking through a SWOT analysis
• Using timelines to create a yearly plan
• Making a decision
• Organizing your travel plans
• Challenge Create your to do list
• Solution Create your to do list
• Next Steps