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Partnering with Your Boss: Strategic Skills for Administrative Professionals

Two heads are better than one.

Learn how to create a powerful alliance with your manager and enhance your professional profile within your organization. This communication course course examines the essential relationship-building skills that will help you develop workable strategies, establish your authority and get your ideas noticed.

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This course is only offered through Courses On Request.


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Learning Objectives

  • Apply planning skills to anticipate needs, manage time and projects
  • Explore personal power, authority and techniques to gain recognition
  • Identify and practice personal behaviours and modes of interaction that form the basis for strategic collaborations with the boss
  • Apply decision-making skills to become proactive in anticipating the needs of the boss

Course Benefits

  • Form a strategic partnership with your manager
  • Increase your contribution by anticipating your manager’s needs
  • Gain support and necessary resources to efficiently manage your workload
  • Understand and support the goals and objectives of your manager, department and organization

Course Features

  • Audiovisual resources to reinforce learning in an impactful manner
  • Hands-on activities engage participants in demonstrating skills
  • Brainstorm activities encourage involvement of everyone for creative thinking

Additional Details

NOTE: You must bring a calculator to your session.

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Who Should Attend

Administrative and executive assistants, secretaries and other administrative professionals who wish to build a stronger profile with their manager and department.

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  • "  Janelle is a terrific course administrator. She made everything very easy to understand and the information was of benefit to my boss and I.  "

  • "  I liked the fact that everybody that attended had the same problems and as a group, we discussed ways that we would handle them when we got back to the office. It gave you a good perspective on how to handle problems.  "

  • "  Janelle was an excellent instructor and kept the class motivated which was wonderful - keeps you interested in the course and the time flew by! The course gave wonderful insight into why and how you can have a better working relationship with your boss.  "

  • "  The course really made one think, especially concerning what type of person you are and also the type of person your supervisor is.  "