Essential Skills: Empower Your Executive Assistant
Off The RecordTraining - Personal Skills
Managers, directors, executives and their teams are hard pressed to find Executive Assistants to manage their busy agendas. In most cases the assistants who have been chosen are young, have limited work experience and have to learn on the job. In this two-day workshop, give your Executive Assistant the opportunity to be exposed to time management, problem solving, business writing and communication skills to empower them to work independently.
This course looks at the work of Executive Assistants from 6 aspects:
Methods of Prioritization
Decision and Action Planning
Asking Questions and Funneling
Problem Identification and Generating Options
Effective Method of Writing Emails
Delivering News
It will also allow them to become the first line of defense against the innumerable distractions in the supervisor's workday. Participants will engage in practical activities and be given tools and templates applicable to their daily jobs.
If you are a personal or executive assistant with experience assisting managers and executives, or are an office manager, secretary, administrative assistant or receptionist who provides administrative support to personnel and teams, this course is for you!