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The Professional Executive Assistant

Get the key business skills you need to support management and take your career to the next level.

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The Key Issues

The world of business is moving fast. As an Executive Assistant you are now not only supporting your manager, but very often you need to drive your own projects, be proactive and get results. You need to develop new skills to support your role and to get things done in the right way. These new skills include being more creative and assertive in hectic times.

Time management

Decision-making

Creative thinking

Key Competences​

Management styles

Communication skills

Assertiveness
skills

The Right Programme for You

You are an experienced administrative professional or executive assistant. You manage a wide range of tasks and projects. You want to boost your career and get the key skills and knowledge you need for your role.
  • Business Professionals
Specialists, engineers, chemists, technical staff, logistics, commercial positions, project managers etc
  • New Managers
Managers of teams including team leaders with up to 3 years' experience in this role
  • Managers
Managers of teams and departments with more than 3 years' experience in this role
  • Senior Managers
Managers of managers, countries, divisions, regions companies with more than 10 years of senior management experience

Highlights

Learn how to manage your time and set priorities in a hectic business world.

Develop your assertiveness skills and become more creative in driving decisions.

Get personal feedback from peers and MCE faculty on your progress.

Learn, Practice and Use

  • Understand the changing business environment in which you operate and the impact it has on your role and the role of your manager
  • Become more effective in a top management team setting
  • Enhance your interpersonal skills
  • Become a more confident decision-maker
  • Learn to set personal objectives and develop a plan for your own career and knowledge development
  • Be able to apply creative thinking in difficult situations, and act more assertively when appropriate
  • Develop the confidence to handle stressful and delicate situations
  • Learn how to set priorities and manage your time

Programme Details

The Professional Executive Assistant is a 4 day or 6 live online sessions hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. The programme focuses on the key skills you need in your role as an executive assistant today including: communication skills, assertiveness, time management and more.

Eight Programme Modules

1 | Motivation and Time Management

  • The Changing Business Environment
  • Understanding Motivation
  • Time Management

2 | Working More Effectively in a Top Management Team

  • Setting Decision Making
  • Diagnosing and analysing issues
  • Concentrating and making decisions effectively
  • Getting decisions implemented
  • Creative Thinking

3 | Understanding Management and Leadership Styles

  • Understand yourself, your boss and others
  • Tips for cross-cultural and remote working

4 | Effective Communication

  • Skills and strategies for handling important relationships
  • How to improve performance
  • How to improve self-confidence

5 | Conflict Management

  • Conflict Management

6 | Assertiveness

  • Negotiating, persuading, influencing techniques
  • Giving feedback Them in a Virtual Environment

7 | Projecting Yourself and Effective Presentation Skills

  • Projecting Yourself and Effective Presentation Skills

8 | Working on Continued Personal Growth

  • Working on Continued Personal Growth

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Bettina
Hausmann

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Upcoming Programmes

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Face-to-Face
4 days
€2,995
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06 Oct – 09 Oct 2025
Frankfurt
Radisson Blu Hotel, Frankfurt
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Live Online
6 sessions
€2,995
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06 Oct – 09 Oct 2025
8 Sessions
06 Oct, 09:00 – 12:00CET
06 Oct, 14:00 – 17:00CET
07 Oct, 09:00 – 12:00CET
07 Oct, 14:00 – 17:00CET
08 Oct, 09:00 – 12:00CET
08 Oct, 14:00 – 17:00CET
09 Oct, 09:00 – 12:00CET
09 Oct, 14:00 – 17:00CET
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06 Oct – 09 Oct 2025
Frankfurt
Radisson Blu Hotel, Frankfurt
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06 Oct – 09 Oct 2025
8 Sessions
06 Oct, 09:00 – 12:00CET
06 Oct, 14:00 – 17:00CET
07 Oct, 09:00 – 12:00CET
07 Oct, 14:00 – 17:00CET
08 Oct, 09:00 – 12:00CET
08 Oct, 14:00 – 17:00CET
09 Oct, 09:00 – 12:00CET
09 Oct, 14:00 – 17:00CET
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Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

Agata Kulik, Product Manager Special Salts, Jungbunzlauer Ladenburg GmbH, Germany”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

Andreas Armenat, Head of Production, GO Generics & Standard Solutions, Fresenius Kabi AG, Germany

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

Alessandro Foresio, Vice President,
Logic S.p.A., Italy

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

Rosa Karen Schmidt, Senior VP-Assistant, Novo Nordisk, Denmark

Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

Agata Kulik, Product Manager Special Salts, Jungbunzlauer Ladenburg GmbH, Germany”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

Andreas Armenat, Head of Production, GO Generics & Standard Solutions, Fresenius Kabi AG, Germany

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

Alessandro Foresio, Vice President,
Logic S.p.A., Italy

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

Rosa Karen Schmidt, Senior VP-Assistant, Novo Nordisk, Denmark

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