Course description
Get Ahead as an Executive PA Training Course
The Executive PA training programme helps working PAs and Executive Assistants take their skills and performance to a new level. In two days of hands-on training, the course explores proven strategies that assistants can apply to increase their effectiveness, helping them, and their Executives, to achieve more.
Written and delivered by Adam Fidler, one of Europe's most popular EA Trainers, this is his best-selling programme and includes his ground-breaking Five Folder System™, helping thousands of talented PAs stay organised and manage even the highest workloads. The course is highly practical, and not only includes inspirational ideas to get PAs and EAs thinking differently, but also covers key strategies and the tools to make PAs more effective in their jobs.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This training course is suitable for Executive Secretaries, PAs, Senior Administrators, Executive Assistants, Executive PAs, and Project Assistants.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
This training course results in a CPD Certificate.
Training Course Content
The Get Ahead as an Executive PA course includes the following modules:
- Redefining the role of the PA - from PA to EA using the 'red box'/'black box' model.
- Understand the Executive PA role better and the expectations and wishes of Executives in terms of what they are looking for.
- Values and Beliefs - and how these affect your performance at work.
- PA Competency Model and 'behaviours'.
- Daily routines: being a better diary manager, the day pack, travel planning and itineraries.
- The revolutionary Five Folder System™ to keep you totally organised even when swamped with work!
- Meetings, agendas and correspondence.
- Working effectively with your boss.
- Building emotional resilience and emotional intelligence.
- Setting boundaries; pushing back appropriately and diplomatically!
- Introduction to transactional analysis. How assertive behaviour leads to assertive outcomes.
- Workflow and inbox management - keeping your inbox organised and systematic.
- Working under pressure - dealing with a high volume of work.
- Your new PA Toolkit - the 'software' and the 'hardware'.
- Next steps and implementation when back in the office.
- Personal action planning and continuing self-development.
Reviews
Average rating 5
Just wanted to say a big thank you - the course was brill. I got so much more out of it than I was expecting and it has helped me to look at my role clearly. I loved the way th...
Adam Fidler Academy provides unrivalled content, learnings and strategies on the 'new' role of the Assistant. Practical skills, knowledge and experience all put into a 2 day co...
Expenses
The cost of this course is £1,300 (London) or £1,100 (Manchester). Discounts are available for multiple bookings, charities, public sector and third sector organisations. Prices are subject to VAT at 20%.
Adam proved himself a great course leader, and designer, combining experience, professionalism and personability in two worthwhile days. As a law graduate, I was already a very ...