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Essential Skills for the Office Professional — A 2-Day Course

Course Synopsis

The office professional's role calls for flexibility and a broad portfolio of skills including self-motivation, assertiveness, and dealing with difficult people.

The ability to communicate effectively at a wide range of levels with tact and diplomacy is fundamental for a multi-skilled professional.

This course is designed for office administrators, secretaries and PAs, to assess and evaluate existing skills and techniques and to develop those skills essential for successful office and administrative support.

Administrators, secretaries and PAs, who want to enhance their office and administrative support skills will benefit from attending this course.

Course Objectives

Delegates will learn how to:

  • State how the role of office professional has evolved
  • Evaluate your areas of strength and your areas for improvement in the office environment
  • Accept new challenges and responsibilities with confidence
  • Establish what motivates you at work
  • Demonstrate influencing and assertiveness skills using effective non-verbal and verbal communication
  • Define your preferred working style and relating it to your interaction with others
  • Analyse creative thinking techniques and further ways of using your initiative
  • Identify the best way to deal with challenging people using recognised communication models
  • Review stress and how to limit its effects on you

Outline Course Contents

Establish personal objectives for the course

The evolving role of the office professional

Your personal SCOT analysis

The importance of self-motivation

Showing personal initiative

Initiative and creative thinking

Working effectively with your manager

Communication models

The importance of non-verbal communication

Questioning techniques and listening skills

The significance of assertive behaviour

Your rights and responsibilities

A model to enable you to deliver an assertive message

What is influencing?

The importance of positive language

Exploring your working style

Dealing with challenging people

Handling stress in the workplace

Completion of a personal action plan

Personal Development training UK enquiries

UK Training enquiries and feedback form.

Personal Development training UK prices

For publicly scheduled training (individual places), see our UK training schedule.

In-house training for company groups is charged at a daily rate per group — see our In-House UK Training Guidelines.

Publicly Scheduled Training Locations

We currently run public training courses in the following locations:

  • London, UK
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
  • Birmingham, West Midlands, UK
  • Carshalton, Surrey, UK
  • Chester, North West, UK
  • Coventry, West Midlands, UK
  • Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  • Glasgow, Scotland, UK
  • Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK
  • Manchester, North West, UK
  • Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK
  • Newark, Nottinghamshire, UK
  • Reading, Berkshire, UK
  • Slough, Berkshire, UK
  • Stevenage, Hertfordshire, UK
  • Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK
  • Wokingham, Berkshire, UK

Most UK public training courses are available on a monthly basis.

Please see the individual course outlines or our public training schedule for details.

In-house (on-site) training locations

We deliver in-house courses at client premises and/or training facilities in any part of the world which is practically and commercially accessible.

Our In-house training guidelines outline our basic requirements and our UK pricing structure. To estimate costs for training in other countries, simply convert to your local currency and then make a rough calculation of our tutor's costs for travelling to and staying at your location.


West Yorkshire Office

GBdirect Ltd
Training Division
Bradford Design Exchange
34 Peckover Street
BRADFORD
BD1 5BD
West Yorkshire
United Kingdom

training@gbdirect.co.uk

Training: 0800 651 0338
General: +44 (0)870 200 7273
Finance: +44 (0)1353 615 174

Please call between 0900 and 1700 (UK time) on Monday to Friday


South East Regional Office

GBdirect Ltd
Training Division
18 Lynn Rd
ELY
CB6 1DA
Cambridgeshire
United Kingdom

training@gbdirect.co.uk

Training: 0800 651 0338
General: +44 (0)870 200 7273
Finance: +44 (0)1353 615 174

Please call between 0900 and 1700 (UK time) on Monday to Friday


Please note:
Non-training enquiries should be directed, initially, to our UK national office in Bradford (West Yorkshire), even if the enquiry concerns services delivered in London or South/East England. Clients in London and the South East will typically be handled by staff working in the London or Cambridge areas.