Get Sharp: Smarter Decision Making and Critical Thinking for Administrative Professionals Seminar # 2145

Tackle today’s business challenges with high-powered decision-making skills for administrative professionals!

This interactive seminar is designed to help you build and expand your decision-making skills, critical-thinking abilities and creative problem-solving skills. You will cover methods of assessing and resolving problems and understanding the role of inferences and assumption. In addition, these decision-making skills for administrative professionals will help you gain confidence in asking the “right questions” and overcoming the stress of making complex decisions.

How You Will Benefit

• Enhance your ability to be more proactive and to act independently
• Become more confident in making sound decisions
• Decrease stress related to making critical decisions and solving workplace problems
• Strengthen your ability to influence and persuade others using decision-making skills for administrative professionals
• Learn how to ask questions that get the answers you need
• Learn how to apply creative problem-solving techniques
• Build greater professional recognition through enhanced skills

What You Will Cover

• Defining terms: critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, creativity and strategic thinking—small group activity
• Understanding accelerated learning and Gardeners 8 Intelligences: identifying how you learn best
• Creating new ways to ask questions: open questions, closed questions, leading questions, assumption challenges
• Critical thinking: enhance your credibility with management
• Applying different problem-solving techniques at work
• Flexing your methods of problem solving
• Enhancing self- and interpersonal awareness

Who Should Attend

Administrative professionals including secretaries, executive secretaries, administrative assistants, office managers, executive assistants and other office support staff who will benefit from better decision-making skills for administrative professionals.

Additional Information

• Extended Seminar Description
• Faculty Info
• Seminar Hours
• Travel and Accommodations
• Cancellation Policy
• Federal Government Employee Discounts
• On-Site Delivery

Registration Fee

2 days / 1.2 CEUs
Nonmembers $1,545 / AMA Members $1,395 / GSA $1,195

Schedule

We have 4 scheduled sessions located nationwide starting between September 15, 2008 and March 5, 2009.

• Call 1-877-566-9441 for an AMA Training Consultant.
• E-mail customerservice@amanet.org
• Fax AMA Text Registration Form
• Mail AMA Text Registration Form