Partnering with Your Boss: Strategic Skills for Administrative Professionals Seminar # 2268

Get more out of your work by partnering with your boss!

As an administrative assistant, your success depends upon effectively partnering with your boss. You are often called upon to communicate, plan, organize, negotiate and participate in decision making at very high levels. Attend this course specially designed for administrative professionals and master techniques for goal setting, prioritizing, planning, decision making, relationship building and listening.

They'll return to work with a better understanding of what partnering with your boss entails and a greater ability to support your organization’s goals from your position as a secretary, executive secretary or member of the administrative support staff. You’ll learn how to adapt to various communication styles to successfully influence and work with your boss and others…establish trust, credibility and authority to strengthen your relationship with your boss…proactively manage tasks that impact on your boss’s productivity…and represent your boss in various situations.

How You Will Benefit

• Consistently anticipate your boss’s needs
• Gain the respect of your boss and be taken seriously
• Get what you need from others to accomplish your job and achieve your boss’s goals
• Have the authority to make—and act on—decisions
• Confidently represent your boss
• Be seen by your boss and by others as a valuable professional resource
• Develop a trusting relationship with your boss
• Partner with multiple bosses and other office professionals
• Effectively use time and get more things done in a day

What You Will Cover

Defining the Strategic Partnership

• Identify the characteristics of effective partnering with your boss and use these features to create a positive partnership

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

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

Extending the Partnership

• Define and integrate your personal power bases by revisiting trust…and by completing a “power-base planner”

Aligning and Expanding  Partnering Relationships

• Use influencing and persuasive communication skills in planning and delivering a business case presentation

Who Should Attend

Senior administrative support staff, executive secretaries, administrative assistants, staff assistants and executive assistants.

This Seminar Features Blended Learning

AMA Blended Learning combines instructor-led training with online pre- and post-seminar assessments, tune-up courses and other resources to maximize your training goals. Through a blend of proven instructor-led seminars and powerful online technology, AMA Blended Learning provides a compelling and more comprehensive experience for the learner—producing a greater return-on-investment for the employer and the seminar participant.

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 16 scheduled sessions located nationwide starting between December 1, 2008 and July 27, 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