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The 35th Annual Administrative Professionals Course

  • The changing role of the assistant
  • Managing in the middle
  • Dealing with the reality of responsibility without authority
  • Recognizing and eliminating boss/assistant conflicts
  • How to Improve your image with supervisors
  • How to position yourself for greater responsibility
  • Gaining greater acceptance as an "Assistant To"
  • The assistant's role in building a team
  • Increasing your credibility as your boss's representative

    Making relationships work for you

  • Four strategies for improving one-on-one relationships
  • Twenty new ways to eliminate office conflicts
  • Secret techniques for making a winning first impression
  • Relationship strategies that lead to recognition and advancement
  • Analyzing your personal behavioral styles profile
  • Four new methods for minimizing interpersonal conflicts
  • The Sicilian Stalemate: How to avoid it

    Power communication skills

  • Developing the 5 power communication techniques of successful Assistants
  • How to enhance your reputation and personal power
  • Increase your personal power and impact
  • How to make a more powerful impression at meetings and presentations
  • Express yourself so you will be listened to
  • Why the first five minutes are vital
  • Use "active listening skills" to reduce misunderstandings
  • How to ask for and get what you want
  • Avoiding the most common mistakes women make in interviews
  • Get your ideas across in a professional manner

    Developing positive self-esteem

  • The prevalent, persistent poison of low self-esteem
  • Eight common manifestations of low self esteem
  • Why successful and capable secretaries and assistants often struggle with low self-esteem
  • What we can learn from Adams, Prinze, Freud and da Vinci
  • Losing our fear of Kineahora
  • Ten proven ways to enhance your self-esteem

    Working with people

  • Establishing instant trust and rapport with others
  • Coping effectively with different and sometimes difficult people
  • Building customer and client confidence
  • How to build greater credibility
  • How to say NO and GOOD-BYE without offending
  • How to change resistance into agreement
  • How to respond to hostile criticism
  • Developing the five communication techniques of successful administrative assistants
  • Tips for stopping the tough guy cold
  • Get greater results with the hard-to-handle people in your life
  • Cope successfully with complainers and those who just will not communicate
  • Deal effectively with sarcasm, put-downs and hostile, aggressive individuals
  • Five ways to work successfully with others as part of a team
  • Understanding the relationship between power and manipulation
  • Identifying your stress style - how it affects your relationships
  • The administrative assistant role as an agent of change
  • Understanding what empowerment is and how the assistant can achieve it
  • How to identify and eliminate communication behaviors that turn others off
  • Dealing with resistance - What to do when they won't ...
  • Developing open direct communication with staff
  • When all else fails - How to discipline effectively
  • Conducting a disciplinary interview
  • Increasing your confidence as an interviewer
  • Getting your ideas across in a professional manner
  • Understanding the five most common patterns of poor performance and how to handle them
  • Two powerful systems for analyzing poor performance
  • Identifying your conflict management style
  • Getting more people to like you

    Improving memory and concentration

  • Memory For Management: How a trained memory can impact your professional success
  • Improving your concentration to remarkable degree
  • Memory myths and mechanisms
  • Right brain strategies for remembering
  • The "Mental Slap", what it is and how it can help you
  • Remembering facts and numerical data simply and accurately
  • Improving dramatically your ability to remember names and faces
  • Curing absentmindedness forever!

    Achieving personal excellence

  • Beyond positive thinking
  • Breaking through mistaken beliefs
  • Making choices - establishing control
  • Learn powerful business planning and goal setting ideas
  • Realize you are the cause - not the effect
  • Trusting in your own creative powers
  • Personal power secrets that win respect
  • Aligning your career growth with organizational objectives
  • How to replace self doubt with self-confidence
  • How to set goals and stick to them in crisis
  • Avoiding the greatest mistake people make with their bosses
  • Developing a career action plan

    Organizational skills for the New Millennium

  • Managing yourself - taking control of your time habits
  • Personal planning techniques that minimize "fire fighting"
  • The 5 essential steps in planning your day
  • Establishing your priorities
  • Making the vital distinction between URGENT and IMPORTANT
  • Nixon vs. Kennedy: The Pareto Principle
  • How to preserve your "Prime Time"
  • Reversing the Mañana Mentality
  • Five ways to handle interruptions effectively
  • Managing time in a multiple boss situation
  • "TIME STYLE" The key to increased personal effectiveness
  • How to avoid the manipulation time tactics of others
  • Exploring the NEW time technologies

    Reducing stress and its effects

  • Recognize and deal with the early signs of stress: what your behavior is telling you
  • Learn why secretaries and assistants are so prone to stress
  • Learn to read your body's warning signals
  • Learn to turn stress into personal energy
  • Improving decision making under intense pressure
  • How to recognize and deal with type "A" behavior
  • Evaluating your conflict management methods
  • Ten life enriching ways to reduce stress and its effects
  • How to evoke the "relaxation response"



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