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.


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 

Key Competencies:
• Time management
• Goal setting skills
• Strategic decision making
• Building relationships
• Creating trust
• Assertiveness skills

Partnering with Your Boss: Strategic Skills for Administrative Professionals is a hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. The programme will be led by an experienced facilitator with former administrative and management experience in international companies.


4 Programme Modules:

1 - Defining the Strategic Partnership
• Identify the characteristics of effective partnering with your boss and use these features to create a positive partnership

2 - Developing a Trusting Relationship with the Boss
•  Adapt methods to complement the boss's preferences by completing a self-evaluation exercise and creating a blueprint for change

 3 - Planning Skills to Anticipate and Proactively Support the Boss
• 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

 4 - Extending the Partnership
• Define and integrate your personal power bases by revisiting trust...and by completing a “power-base planner”

5 - Aligning and Expanding  Partnering Relationships
• Use influencing and persuasive communication skills in planning and delivering a business case presentation

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.


Typical Participants:
• Admin Professionals