Partnering with Your Executive

Learn how to communicate clearly in person and writing, how to handle difficult people, and how to apply emotional intelligence in your daily interactions.  Get techniques for taking control of your daily schedule; planning and leading meetings, and managing projects effectively from start to finish.

Strategic Success Tools for Today's Top Assistants

Do you want to go beyond just supporting your team? Being accepted as a leader, influencing your peers without formal authority, building trust and credibility with your boss are all critical to getting results as a team. How can you identify what motivates you to perform to your best and highest? Support your team and lead your team by confronting the fears that hold you back.

Research continues to reveal that top-notch communication skills are an absolute must if you want to get ahead in your career and in life. In this seminar, you’ll learn practical steps for how to be seen as a highly credible and confident communicator who commands attention and gets the message across. Learn practical and proven techniques and skills for making the best impression the first time. You’ll be armed with the tools and techniques you need to be a more motivating, more persuasive and more effective professional.

In this dynamic, live webinar, get valuable tips and insights and build the skills you need to perform as a leader, advisor, and mentor. Popular APC and EA Summit trainer Peggy Vasquez will walk you through the differences between each role and how to do each successfully. She will show you how to give and receive feedback, develop your team members, and identify and grow your successor so that you can move on to your next career-building challenge.

The way you handle yourself under duress says a lot about your emotional intelligence, communication skills, and confidence. Some conversations are ordinary and benign, while others have the potential to become confrontational, explosive and even dangerous to your career success or emotional health. Workplace miscommunication costs millions of dollars in lost productivity, errors and corrective actions. But with proactive thinking, proper positioning, and good judgment, your conversations and communications have the capacity to build and strengthen your credibility, effectiveness, and career.

Powerful Assistant and Executive partnerships are easily recognized. They depend on each other to achieve a common purpose and contribute to each other’s accomplishments. What steps were taken to create the trust and respect displayed in their behavior? How did they become confident in one another’s abilities? Join Peggy as she shares personal stories and experience from her successful career, in which she’s formed many strong partnerships with her Executive(s).

We’ve talked to thousands of administrative professionals whose number one concern is how to get their ideas heard and implemented. It isn’t about having positional power; it’s about presenting your ideas in such a way that others willingly follow your lead. Learn how to cut through barriers so that others give you the cooperation, time, resources or support you need. Communicate so that others listen; use four listening steps that encourage others to listen to you. Check yourself against the 11 toxic communication traps that diminish your ability to persuade. We’ll explore what role honesty and trust play in becoming more influential, how to communication using “executive style” techniques, and the greatest strategic tool in your arsenal: non-defensive communication.

Do you have a moment of panic when you’re asked to take meeting minutes? Do you have trouble deciding what to record and not record in your minutes? Do you leave a meeting with pages of notes you can’t decipher later? Do you worry that during a meeting you will be asked a parliamentary procedure question? Alleviate the stress, confusion, and fear that taking meeting minutes often causes. This webinar is designed to assist minute takers in perfecting their skills, to take minutes more efficiently, effectively, and accurately. You will leave with new examples and invaluable templates that you can adapt to your everyday work environment!

Most administrative professionals have been asked to take meeting minutes at some time. Yet most of us never had formal training in minute-taking. The practical tips and proven tools you'll get from this minute-taking expert will boost your confidence and competence immediately!

This 'Learn It On-Demand!' Webinar alleviates the stress, confusion, and fear that taking meeting minutes often causes. Examine new technologies available that make minute taking easier. Develop a checklist that walks you from constructing an agenda before the meeting, to the final follow-up after the meeting, and everything that you need to know in between. You’ll walk away with skills that allow you to take meeting minutes immediately and with confidence.

In today’s busy workplace, many Administrative Professionals feel a constant lack of control. With so much happening at any given time, they simply react to their circumstances in the moment, trying to keep everyone happy without falling too far behind. They don’t have the time and necessary tools to anticipate needs, plan and prepare for the future, and prevent foreseeable issues from popping up. Instead, they’re trapped in a state of reactivity—constantly playing catch up but never getting ahead.

Are you managing multiple important assignments, tight time lines, and resources that seem to grow scarcer every day? Your title may say something else, but your role is Project Manager. Rather than face an endless “To-Do” list, learn how to leverage Microsoft Office and other applications as project management tools. Get a handle on the principles of project management, and techniques for planning, managing time, coordinating the efforts of others, and juggling resources to get the job done.

Do you feel constantly "snowed under" as a result of too much to do and not enough time to do it? Are shifting priorities making you crazy? You can go from overwhelmed to in control! Get the tools that you need to successfully manage the workload avalanche you experience every day.

Following this webinar, you will: 

• Recognize the absolute necessity and benefit of taking appropriate risks in business and life.
• Identify and mentally prepare for the 4 factors you must fight when evaluating your next step.
• Learn 5 valuable principles for taking risk, including steps to take to motivate yourself and how to gain buy-in from others whose help you may need/want.
• Identify and eliminate the excuses holding you back, and begin a plan to add more risk in your life to accomplish your goals. 

ASAP membership provides access to essential resources and valuable discounts for today's administrative professional. Included in this FREE membership is:

• Exclusive resources updated and curated monthly, including free webinars, our popular newsletter, digital downloads, articles and vlogs!
• Access to 10+ training bundles on topics like leadership, communication, and technology
• Opportunity to network, exchange ideas and share challenges in our Member Forum 
• Gain industry recognition through our PACE certification program
• $10 discount on live and on-demand webinars
• $200+ discount on registration for ASAP's in-person training events
• Vendor Directory to help you find solutions you and your company need

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