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Partnering with Your Boss – Strategic Skills for Administrative Professionals

Build trust and credibility to strengthen your relationship with your boss and increase your effectiveness. Develop your strategic skills to make strategic decisions independently or with your boss.

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The Key Issues

As an executive assistant today, you drive more and more projects that are strategic for the company. You probably also work for different bosses and that is not always easy. So you need to be able to manage multiple bosses and multiple projects and get things done.

Time management

Goal setting
skills

Strategic decision making

Key Competences​

Building relationships

Creating
trust

Assertiveness skills

The Right Programme for You

You are an administrative professional or executive assistant. You manage a wide range of tasks and projects for your boss. You want to develop better working relationships with you manager and become more effective.
  • Business Professionals
  • New Managers
  • Managers
  • Senior Managers

Highlights

Learn key skills in goal setting, prioritizing, planning, decision-making, relationship building and listening.

Develop your communication and assertiveness skills to get more done on time and on target.

Learn how to work with multiple bosses every day.

Learn, Practice and Use

  • Learn how to consistently anticipate your boss’s needs and corporate goals
  • Collaborate with your boss and build a working relationship
  • Get the support you need from others to accomplish your job and achieve your boss’s goals
  • Have the authority to make and act on key decisions
  • Represent your boss confidently in meetings and discussions
  • Learn to work with multiple bosses and other office professionals every day
  • Be seen by your boss and others as a valued professional in the organization
  • Understand the characteristics of strategic working partnerships
  • Develop active listening skills to support your projects and goals
  • Use your time effectively and get more things done

Programme Details

Partnering with Your Boss: Strategic Skills for Administrative Professionals is a 2 day hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. The programme focuses on your strategic partnership with senior management and driving forward key projects.

Five Programme Modules

  • Identify the characteristics of effective partnering with your boss and use these features to create a positive partnership
  • Adapt methods to complement the boss’s preferences by completing a self-evaluation exercise and creating a blueprint for change
  • Choose and apply the active listening skills that allow you to anticipate the boss’s needs by completing a communication assessment and enacting a listening skills role play
  • Define and integrate your personal power bases by revisiting trust…and by completing a “power-base planner”
  • Use influencing and persuasive communication skills in planning and delivering a business case presentation”
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Faculty

Bettina
Hausmann

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Bettina
Hausmann

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Hausmann

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Hausmann

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Hausmann

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