Advanced Skills for Senior Office Professionals

This workshop has been designed to take you, a successful office professional, to the next level of your career.  It will build on the great skills you already have and develop the advanced skills you will need for the future. You will learn how to work in close partnership with your managers and other stakeholders, and increase your own level of responsibility to create more space for them to work effectively.  It will help you become more self-aware and to develop the managerial aspects of the role.  You will leave with some great ideas and practical actions that will build your confidence and give you the edge over others.

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It's more than just a course.

This is a learning journey.

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Excite

On-demand digital learning playlist

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Engage

Live session delivered virtually or in-person

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Supporting on-demand digital learning playlists | 30-minute follow up coaching session (optional extra for teams)

Learning Journey

For our learning journeys we use our proven excite, engage, embed method to ensure the learning experience is engaging and the learning is sustained. The full details of the programme are shown below.

Course Code: OV-ASOP

  • 2 x half-day live session delivered virtually or in-person | 6-8 hrs on-demand learning | 30-minute coaching session (optional extra for teams)

  • This is available for individuals, groups and teams

  • Part of our Core Library

This workshop has been designed to take you, a successful office professional, to the next level of your career.  It will build on the great skills you already have and develop the advanced skills you will need for the future.

You will learn how to work in close partnership with your managers and other stakeholders, and increase your own level of responsibility to create more space for them to work effectively.  It will help you become more self-aware and to develop the managerial aspects of the role.  

You will leave with some great ideas and practical actions, that will build your confidence and give you the edge over others. 

This course is suitable for PAs, secretaries and office professionals who want to develop their managerial capability to take them to the next level of their career.

By the end of this course you will be able to:

  • Develop a strong network in order to develop yourself
  • Demonstrate true awareness of how your organisation operates
  • Define your career drivers through heightened self-awareness
  • Identify your preferred communication style and adapt it to get the best from others
  • Manage conflicting priorities, save time and increase efficiency by being more proactive
  • Apply a project management approach to help you manage events and small projects
  • Think creatively and make good decisions
  • Assertively speak up in front of others

For groups & teams

Live session delivered virtually or in-person. Up to 15 people per programme.

From £4800 (+VAT)

Bring in-house

For individuals

Upcoming dates (select date for price info)

£ 1,000.00 (+ VAT)

£ 1,000.00 (+ VAT)

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Build a customised programme

Use our building blocks approach to create a customised programme to suit your specific needs and context, at the pace you need. 
Talk to us about what you want to achieve.

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Step 1

Choose the core blocks you want (from our content library)

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Step 2

Consider what blocks you want to customise (to make it your own)

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Step 3

Review any additional technology and support services we can help you with (to bring the truly bring the learning experience to life)

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Step 4

We’ll create the optimum journey for your learners

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The building blocks menu of options

To help achieve the pace and agility you need, we encourage you to make use of what we already have (our core library) and make it your own. There’s no need to ‘recreate the wheel’ - build from what we have ‘ready to go’ and then customise what you need to.

Choose from across our range of 100+ core topic areas.

Online self-study:
  • Fluidbooks
  • Infographics (standard and HTML)
  • Thrive in Five
  • Videos/animations
  • Quizzes & assessments
  • Podcasts
  • Digital flip cards
  • HTML microsites
  • Digital adventures
  • Applying what you have learned - action learning prompts/exercises
  • All assets under a topic/collection
Live expert-led:
  • Pre-built team experience (learning journey)
  • Live workshops - virtual or in-person training (1 x half-day live session in a day; 2 x half-day live session in a day)
  • Bitesize (1 x 90-min bite-size session in a day; 2 x 90-min bite-size session in a day; 3 x 90-min bite-size session in a day)
  • Run-it-yourself
  • Coaching – per hour (Follow-up; Learning programme; Transitioning together; Team effectiveness; Career coaching; Leadership & executive; Skills performance coaching)
  • Group facilitation sessions (1 x 3hr in a day; 2 x 3hr in a day
  • Leadership lab session (1 x 3hr in a day; 2 x 3hr in a day)
  • Virtual delivery platform licence
Personalisation for live events:
  • Add your logo
  • Tailored
  • Branded
  • Fully customised
Bespoke content creation:
  • Fluidbooks
  • Infographics (standard and HTML)
  • Thrive in Five
  • Videos/animations
  • Quizzes & assessments
  • Podcasts with bespoke or your content
  • Digital flip cards
  • HTML microsites
  • Digital adventures
  • Digital badges/certificates
  • Live expert-led bite-size or workshop session
Bespoke printed communication/learning assets:
  • Handouts
  • Z-cards
  • Zappar AR for Z-card
  • Action learning prompts/exercises
  • Bespoke Hub annual subscription fee (per user)
  • Hub implementation
  • Subscription (open) hub
  • Booker portal
  • Delivery – Virtual or in-person facilitator; virtual producer
  • Faculty management
  • Delegate management
  • Instructional design
  • Specialist instructional design
  • Learning journey curation
  • Logistics support
  • Project management
  • Customer success management
  • Branding & creative communication
  • Graphic design
  • Translations services
  • Proofing/QA
  • Data insights & engagement
  • Consultancy
  • Supplier management
  • Managed Learning Services
The building blocks menu of options

Our approach

Successful learning programmes don’t just happen by accident: Our 4E learning journey model ensures maximum transformational power (and it’s informed by decades of adult learning best practices and proven real-life hybrid learning effectiveness).

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