Course Description
Administrative assistants are invaluable members of the office team. They are charged with overseeing and coordinating the day to day operations of a business. Thanks to the advent of communication technology, the skills these assistants require have become diversified and the ability to multitask and juggle several different instructions at once has become essential. Other qualities needed by these members include excellent communication skills, a polished appearance, and good interpersonal instincts. This course tackles all these behavioral skills while focusing on areas related to the use of technology to get things done effectively and successfully.
What Do Participants Learn?
- Define and apply the new roles of executive assistants and administrators to meet modern challenges
- Use technology to get more done and to stay connected with the office and their boss
- File, document, sort, index and retrieve corporate documents, records, and reports to organize work effectively
- Create quality standards for a motivating and productive office environment
- Demonstrate a better command of the English language
- Identify and improve the competencies they require to keep generating added value services
Who Should Attend?
- Management team
- Secretary
- Office Manager
- Administrator
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
- The role of management in the workplace
- The main tasks of office managers
- Mastering Data Management, Indexing and Archiving
- Mastering Filing Systems
- Creating a motivating and productive office environment
- Design and productivity
- Dealing with and managing diversity
- Advanced communication skills for administrators
- Communication across cultures
- Steps to great time management
- Business Communication
- The Executive Assistant Success Toolbox
- Basic modern office etiquette
- Telephone etiquette
- Email etiquette