The Senior Secretary holds a key position of influence and a powerful partnership with the senior management team. Success in this role has a direct effect on the success of executive operations. The Senior Secretary who understands the role and pressures of management and even thinks like the team will achieve improved performance, outstanding results, and respect from superiors and the executive team.
At the end of this course the participants will be able to:
Create opportunities for personal development and accepting the challenges when they arise
Manage yourself, your subordinates, your colleagues, and your boss more effectively
Develop the competence & managerial aspects of your role
Improving your confidence, assertiveness, and communication skills
Manage the stress and pressure in an increasingly challenging environment
Understand your own and others personality & its effect on behavior
Make better and more effective decisions
Administrators
Assistants,
executive secretaries
Existing or prospective office managers
Senior administrators
Supervisors of junior level employees.
The Executive PA – your vital partnership with management
Defining the responsibilities and authority of your role. Biases & prejudice
Identifying ways of broadening your role and creating opportunities to increase your responsibilities
Developing the managerial aspects of your role – essential management skills Planning for development – identifying and overcoming barriers to your success
Understanding your own and others personality & subsequent behavior
Team Exercise
Interacting with others and networking for success – getting yourself seen and heard
Developing and advancing your relationship with your manager/director
Improving your communication skills – negotiating, influencing, persuading, and delegating
Individual, Team & Group exercise on Consensus
Trusting your initiative and judgment
Saying "no" constructively
Problem Solving & Decision making tools
Team roles and interaction with others
Video Presentation Skills
Individual & Team Exercise Tantrix & Colour Blind
Improving your confidence and assertiveness
Practicing effective time management skills
Concentrating, thinking, listening, and making decisions under pressure
Conflict Management
Improving your memory
Video Conflict Management
Team Exercise & Leadership Practice Building/Tower Exercise
Benefiting from key motivation techniques – motivating yourself, your subordinates, and your boss
Achieving results through others
Managing stress and pressure that comes with change and challenge
Measuring your performance based on objectives, standards, responsibilities set and achieved
This course focuses on the leader’s role in developing and motivating excellent teams. Rather than trying to define one ‘right’ way to lead, it will introduce a range of complementary approaches that delegates will have the opportunity to practice, combine and adapt to suit their personal preferences and organizational needs.
By exploring the leadership role from a number of different perspectives, the seminar allows delegates to experiment with innovative ways to empower and enthuse their team and influence positively their organizational climate and culture. The benefits to the organization will be leaders better able to focus on organizational goals and better equipped to develop their team towards sustainable performance improvement.
The Senior Secretary holds a key position of influence and a powerful partnership with the senior management team. Success in this role has a direct effect on the success of executive operations. The Senior Secretary who understands the role and pressures of management and even thinks like the team will achieve improved performance, outstanding results, and respect from superiors and the executive team.
To excel as an Office Manager, Administrator, or Secretary you need to perfect your interpersonal and behavioral skills, to ensure you stay in control and on top of every one of your responsibilities.
We often hear record-breaking athletes say; I owe it to my coach; That’s because however talented they are, athletes need a coach to improve their performance and competitiveness. Likewise, Companies and Organizations need to create a culture where coaching and feedback occur as a routine part of each day. Towards this strategic end. This innovative and motivating course, explains a structured approach to coaching which is effective whether a professional is working with a recruit or seeking improvement from an experienced player. Being less of a boss and more of a coach is fundamental to modern management. Urging people to do better won’t work unless they know how to do it better. Good coaching builds trust and a collaborative climate between professionals and teams.
Business process analysis and modeling is an essential component of Business Process Redesign (BPR) as well as other business process improvement initiatives such as reengineering, systems development, quality management, and continuous process improvement. In this course, the participants will acquire the knowledge and skills to analyze and accurately model business processes at the enterprise level as well as the detailed workflow level.
Participants will learn the Integration Definition for Process Modeling (IDEF0) method and the Business Process Diagram notation. These are open modeling standards that are used by many leading business process modeling tools. They are easy to understand and can be applied to all aspects of business process innovation. These methods facilitate rigorous analysis, creative thinking, and the development of information technology systems.
Soft skills training is training that focuses on developing skills such as communication, teamwork, and problem-solving. Other soft skills include emotional intelligence, a positive attitude, and taking the initiative