Development Programme for Office Professionals

Based on SAQA's Unit Standard ID 110021 NQF Level 4, 6 Credits

As you become more efficient at your job, you become more crucial to your manager's and your organisation's success. But you're also building a foundation for your own career growth! This intensive course will equip you with the skills and know-how you need to make your job easier and more fulfilling, you give your boss peace of mind, and set the stage for a rewarding and successful career.

Course Designed for

This practical and highly interactive course rapidly develops the key competencies required by secretaries and assistants to maximise their contribution to their manager, team and organisation.

Course Objectives

  • Discover how to critically evaluate and solve problems.
  • Maximise your productivity by organising and managing your time efficiently.
  • Be a team player and maximise working relationships.
  • Communicate effectively and confidently with your manager, colleagues and customers.
  • Write professional correspondence with less instruction.
  • Organise information to streamline the management of files and records.

Course Outline

Planning and organising your work

  • Understanding your organisation and the business environment
  • Understanding scheduling techniques and time management tools
  • Assessing your time management skills
  • Planning and scheduling
  • Differentiating between urgency and importance
  • Prioritising your workload while maintaining flexibility
  • Anticipating and communicating Collect, organise and critically evaluate information when maintaining files and records. difficulties in meeting deadlines

Working with your manager and team

  • How you and your manager can become a world-class team
  • Understanding communication styles to maximise interpersonal understanding
  • The importance of communication within the team and with external stakeholders
  • Meeting commitments to others
  • Maintaining confidentiality
  • Managing conflict within teams
  • Building the image of your department and organisation

Writing professionally

  • Writing effective correspondence – all the do's and don'ts
  • Writing effectively with little instruction

Maximising your administration skills

  • Master the sorting, handling and storing of information
  • Creating, maintaining and improving your filing system
  • Monitoring and recording the movement of files
  • Dealing with out of date information

Course duration
Three days

Dates
1 - 3 February (Durban)
14 - 16 March (Johannesburg)
3 - 5 April (Pretoria)
18 - 20 April (Cape Town)
4 - 6 June (Johannesburg)
27 - 29 June (Pretoria)
22 - 24 August (Cape Town)
3 - 5 September (Johannesburg)
1 - 3 October (Pretoria)
29 - 31 October (Cape Town)
5 - 7 November (Pretoria)
7 - 9 November (Durban)

Investment
R5450.00 excl VAT