Organizing Your Work: New Techniques for Administrative Professionals

Tackle the tougher job challenges of today’s workplace with new organizational skills.

As an administrative professional, you’re trying to manage a workflow that’s getting bigger and more intense each day—frequently on demand and at the last minute. To handle all of this and continue to perform your job successfully, you need fresh ways of thinking about your workflow and new ways with which to conquer it. This seminar gives you the tools and techniques that can get all the work on your desk moving in the right direction. You’ll get hands-on practice applying them, as well as systems and templates you will customize during the seminar—so they’ll be ready to use your first day back at work.

• Onsite

How You Will Benefit

• Replace outdated tools like “to do” lists with high productivity task systems and templates
• Learn to create a planning process that allows you to “think only once a week”
• Debunk the 5 biggest myths of time management
• Get the latest ideas on how to streamline voice mail and email
• Learn three magic questions that can cut workload at least 20% and streamline stress
• Customize systems and templates to use back on the job day one

What You Will Cover

• Defining what the terms productivity, being organized, efficiency and effectiveness mean in today’s world
• Debunking myths and getting rid of antiquated tools
• The power of systematizing your work: thinking it through once and “working the work”
• Destressing to eliminate productivity loss
• Problem solving with templates
• Making technology work for you and your boss

Who Should Attend

Administrative assistants at all levels in an organization who are looking for better, more effective ways to manage the increasingly demanding work requirements of their jobs.