Kenya: Executive Secretaries & Office Administrators Training Workshop

Country: Kenya
Organization: Asset Africa Institute
Registration deadline: 26 Aug 2015
Starting date: 03 Sep 2015
Ending date: 04 Sep 2015

Asset Africa Institute (www.assetsafrica.org), is a premier development training brand in Africa which endeavors to build and enhance the skills development needs of public benefit organizations to produce better, more skilled organization staff , with increased ability to manage projects with greater confidence, effectively monitor projects to improve results and quality while instituting strong, well focused and highly motivated project teams. We are pleased to announce the following training workshop for the month of September 2015.

Course Name: Executive Secretaries & Office Administrators Training Workshop
Dates: 3^rd -4^th September 2015
Venue: Nairobi, Kenya
Cost: USD 400

Introduction

What is the role of office administrators and managers, Personal assistants and administration assistants in the office and project implementation processes? Does improving the skills and professional competencies of this cadre enhance the quality of program outcomes for organizations and beneficiaries?

Office Managers, Administrative Assistants, Executive Secretaries and Personal Assistants are key positions of influence and form powerful partnerships with the senior management team. Success in the delivery of these roles has a direct effect on the success of executive operations within organizations. Properly understanding the role and pressures of management and even thinking like the project teams results in improved performance; thus, earning you personal respect from your superiors and the executive team.

This 2 day intensive and highly interactive workshop set in a serene seminar environment aims at exposing you to a variety of personal and organizational development skills, knowledge and competences designed to improve your effectiveness in the workplace and your working relationships with colleagues, seniors, visitors to the office and users of organization services.

Training Objectives:By the end of the training, the participants should correctly demonstrate appreciation of each one of the following skills:

· Ability to make better, quicker and more effective decisions

· Enhanced personal confidence and communication skills

· Improved office, personal an project/resources management skills

· Understanding your own personality & its effect on behavior of other staff in the office

· Improved ability to accept and address office related challenges

· Managing yourself, your subordinates, your colleagues and your boss/seniors more effectively

· Effective stress management

· Delivering better outputs with minimum supervision

Benefits to organization/sponsor

Among other skills and competencies, organizations sponsoring staff to this seminar will have the following benefits:

· Improved staff confidence impacts on staff, visitors and beneficiaries

· Greatly motivated staff with a heightened sense of personal initiative and responsibility

· Improvement in problem solving & decision making techniques

· An enhanced range of competences deployed in the workplace

· An increased and demonstrated awareness of the impact of personality on behaviour and appropriate techniques to improve effectiveness

· Enhanced social interaction skills

· A more personable and agreeable staff is perhaps the greatest communication from an organization to the outside world!

Personal Benefits

Your attendance at the workshop will result in your being exposed to a wide range of interpersonal and organizational techniques required to operate effectively within your organization. Among other benefits, you will be able to gain the following:

· Improvement in your personal confidence in undertaking old, new and even more difficult challenges

· Have better people management skills puts you on the path to infinite career possibilities

· Ability to work and deliver high quality outputs and under pressure helps attain professional respect among your peers and seniors

· Increase your tools to approach situations and people more effectively

· Be better able to think through situations in a more logical and analytical manner

Features of the training

· Sharing of experiences with other participants from various nationalities and cultural backgrounds to broaden your perspectives and improve the performance of your functions

· By using interactive team and group exercises to practice the skills learned

· By presenting a series of thematic video’s to supplement learning experiences

· Excellent opportunities for networking

· Free I month online coaching including provision of materials

Who should attend?

· Office Managers & administrators

· Executive secretaries

· Personal Assistants

· Project Managers and Secretaries

· Senior Office Administrators

· Senior Secretaries

· Executive Assistants