This course will equip any executive or personal assistant with the competence needed to excel on the job. It will give you an in-depth understanding of the principles and best practices of successful senior administrators. It will also increase your impact and visibility at the office and it will enable you to derive several action plans for taking on more challenges and raising your career up a notch. Participants on this course usually are experienced senior assistants of GMs, CEOs and VIPs. Hence, you will have the opportunity to exchange experiences and discuss the challenges facing you.

You will come up with key strategies for broadening your role and expanding yourself to go beyond expectations. You will also develop a professional approach for optimizing your relationship with your manager and building excellent relationships with all stakeholders at the workplace. You will be able to construct professional e-mails which will reflect a professional image of your department and company. This course will also give you vital insights on ways to increase your tolerance to stress and be in control of your time. Organizing professional meetings, including writing effective agendas and minutes of meetings, is also an important element of this course. The last segment of this course provides the know-how of professional dealing with visitors, internal and external customers and how to make your department and company more customer friendly.

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

• Practice advanced administration techniques to effectively run the office of a senior manager
• Develop excellent relationships with the manager to maximize productivity
• Acquire modern communication concepts and strategies to facilitate work flow
• Apply professional business writing techniques in e-mails
• List the main causes of stress and prepare an action plan to keep them under control
• Prepare and organize a professional meeting, write its agenda and take minutes accurately
• Demonstrate professional skills in serving internal and external customers effectively

Executive and personal secretaries, personal assistants, senior clerks, senior administrators and others with the potential to become office managers.

Progressive role of the executive or personal assistant

• Changes and challenges impacting 21st Century administrators
• Developing and broadening your role
• Expanding yourself: going beyond expectations
• Increasing your visibility at the office
• Widening the managerial aspects of your role
• Competencies of the modern personal assistant
• Better management of your work flow

Optimizing the relationship with the boss

• Establishing common objectives and priorities
• Knowing and synchronizing expectations
• Building and managing the relationship
• Managers' types and ways to manage each type
• Maximizing your value relative to the boss
• Partnering with the boss

Effective interpersonal communication

• Building excellent relationships with colleagues
• Dealing with difficult personalities
• Developing self-confidence and assertiveness
• Presenting your ideas and influencing others
• Negotiating win-win outcomes
• Perceptions, attitudes and beliefs

Professional business writing

• Crucial elements for excellent writing
• The AIDA model of business writing
• Writing professional e-mails
• E-mail etiquette

Controlling stress

• Understanding stress
• What happens when you are under stress: the symptoms
• Identifying actual causes of stress
• Action planning to keep stress under control
• Time management preventive measures

Organizing professional meetings

• Planning for the meeting
• Preparing the agenda
• Techniques for writing the minutes
• Improving the effectiveness of your meetings
• Actions to take after your meetings

Dealing with visitors and improving customer service

• Importance of internal customer service
• What customers pay attention to
• Servicing internal and external customers
• Handling complaints professionally
• Making your department customer friendly

A variety of methodologies will be used during the course that includes:

·         (30%) Based on Case Studies

·         (30%) Techniques 

·         (30%) Role Play

·         (10%) Concepts

·         Pre-test and Post-test

·         Variety of Learning Methods

·         Lectures

·         Case Studies and Self Questionaires

·         Group Work

To be advice as per course location. This rate includes participant’s manual, Hands-Outs, buffet lunch, coffee/tea on arrival, morning & afternoon of each day.

International Center for Training & Development (ICTD) will award an internationally recognized certificate(s) for each delegate on completion of training.

Daily Course Timings:

    08:00 - 08:20       Morning Coffee / Tea

    08:20 - 10:00       First Session

    10:00 - 10:20       Coffee / Tea / Snacks

    10:20 - 12:20       Second Session

    12:20 - 13:30       Lunch Break & Prayer Break

    13:30 - 15:00       Last Session