Course description
Modern Day Assistant
Become a stronger, more effective and influential assistant.
Understand how to use the changes to the role and to the world of work to catapult you to success. Explore the opportunities for you to become a TRUE strategic business partner to your executive. Learn tools to reset the ground rules. Achieve the structured communication that you need to drive success for both of you. And adapt your ways of working to your executive’s style to build a proactive partnership.
This course will train you in the new skill sets necessary to ensure businesses are getting the best from their support.
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Benefits of Attending
- Understand the role and how you can add value to your Executive and your business
- Enhance your communication skills, understand body language & explore emotional intelligence
- Learn how to build a powerful business partnership
- Increase your productivity
- Master the art of managing more than one Executive
- How do you become strategic?
- Explore processes for problem-solving, decision-making & project management
- Learn to deal with multitasking, stress and overwhelm
Training Course Content
Day 1
- Introduction & course objectives
- The Modern Day Assistant as a strategic Business Partner:
- Strategically managing relationships & the expectations of your stakeholders:
- Managing more than one Executive
- Communication – the Assistant’s key to advancement
Day 2
- Introduction and review
- So you think you’re strategic – what does that mean?
- Productivity
- Decision Making & Problem solving
- Introduction to Project Management
- Stress – Getting Out of Overwhelm
- Food & beverage throughout the day (for in-person event participants)
Expenses
- Virtual course price: $999
- Classroom course price: $1,357