Day 3 of ASSAP® 2008 - Workshop C

Friday 25 April 2008, 9.00am to 5.00pm

Personal Effectiveness

How to maximise your productivity, efficiency and results

with Al Argo

In our high-tech, fast-paced, ever-changing world, do you find that your workload is continually increasing? You have paperwork to plough through, meetings to minute, projects to prioritise, reports to research, and functions to finalise. It's great to receive so much responsibility and new challenges, but is there any wonder you often feel stressed?

In this stimulating, interactive workshop, Al Argo will help you sharpen your skills and fine-tune your routines so that you gain more control, channel your time better, prioritise work successfully, build better working relationships, and help your boss be more effective.

You will be able to use these new skills and guidelines immediately to handle the growing demands of your job and supercharge your success. As a result, your value to your boss and your organisation will go up. You will also feel happier, more confident and your working life will be more successful and rewarding.

Objectives

1. Learn the secrets of the most productive secretaries and PAs in the world
2. Identify your personal effectiveness strengths and weaknesses
3. Enhance your effectiveness by building successful relationships
4. Create more synergy with your boss(es) and team members
5. Manage all your paperwork, e-mail and information effortlessly
6. Discover 21 techniques to manage your time, attitudes and actions
7. Reduce your personal stress in order to maximise productivity
8. Learn how to use FOCUS to get better results
9. Create a personal action plan to help you achieve your goals
10. Supercharge your success and step up to the challenges of the future

Workshop Outline

Effectiveness begins with you, your attitudes and actions

• Your 4 step plan to personal effectiveness
• Benefits of being organised, and how to achieve this
• The 'decision tree' that can help you make better decisions and get better results

Managing your time, energy and resources

• A simple yet powerful system to manage all your paperwork, email and information
• Managing priorities between important vs. urgent tasks
• Tools and techniques to manage your time effectively
• What really causes stress and how you can reduce it

Building positive, productive relationships

• Applying the 80/20 rule to productivity and relationships
• The 'TRUST' factor that will improve all your relationships
• The 7 keys to building successful relationships
• You and your boss - developing the perfect team

Opportunities and obstacles that can make or break you

• Identifying opportunities and obstacles in your life
• Benefit from opportunities and minimise obstacles
• Learning from the most productive secretaries and PAs in the world
• 6 Es that influence every secretary or support staff

Using goals to boost your effectiveness and efficiency

• 5 powerful reasons why everyone should set goals
• Developing a personal action plan to help you create the future
• The secret of 'WCIDT' and how it can help you achieve your goals
• The 5 Cs that can supercharge your success