Personal Organisation Skills for Secretaries & PAs
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Short course
In Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and 4 other venues
Description
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Short course
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Level
Intermediate
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Flexible
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Start date
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This course is intended to complement People Management Skills for Secretaries and Pas, but can be taken alone. The focus here is on improving the organisational skills needed in changing times, particularly when asked to manage small projects like events, conferences, office moves, web site changes, etc It is a lively course which gives plenty of opportunities for delegates to apply course content to their work.
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About this course
Knowledge of how to run a small project like events, conferences and office moves.
How to prioritise projects and plan using a Gantt chart.
Check out how they currently are using their time and identify areas of improvement.
How to support the decision making process.
Opportunity to discuss real situations.
Reviews
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The knowledge I gained from your excellent course goes a long way to making sure that the theatre sound engineers give us what we want.
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Course rating
Recommended
Centre rating
Peter Sundberg
This centre's achievements
All courses are up to date
The average rating is higher than 3.7
More than 50 reviews in the last 12 months
This centre has featured on Emagister for 13 years
Subjects
- Office IT
- Project
- Ms Office
- Documents
- Organisation skills
- PAS
- Secretaries
- Starting up a Project
- Syndicate
- Syndicate work
Course programme
09:30 - 10:00 Coffee, Course Objectives & Personal Objectives
10:00 - 10:30 Syndicate work
(Discussions on What is a project? and Why projects fail?)
10:30 - 11:00 Starting up a project
(Step by step approach to starting up a small project)
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 12:00 Prioritising a project & key documents
(Opportunity for delegates to use a powerful prioritisation tool on their own topic).
12:00 - 12:30 Using Gantt charts
(Delegates draw a Gantt chart for an Office Relocation project)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 14:00 Team exercise
(A fun activity which explores two important principles about running small projects)
14:00 -14:30 Time management questionnaire
(Delegates explore how they are currently using time using a questionnaire)
14:30 - 15:00 Minimising lost time
(Delegates identify who/what is “stealing” their time at work and receive ideas on how to stop it)
15.00 - 15:15 Tea
15:15 - 16:00 Making decisions
(Delegates use a Decision Making Matrix to determine the best option from a choice of three venues for an event).
16:00 - 16:30 Surgery questions
(Opportunity to relate course content to actual issues at work)
16:30 Summary & Action Plans Agreed
Personal Organisation Skills for Secretaries & PAs