Inaugural Executive Assistant Congress – Perth – 29-30 May 2024
1 Improving your use of current technology to streamline your workflow
- Creating shortcuts to manage Outlook like a pro
- Discovering methodologies to manage your Calendar
- Using OneNote as a one-stop shop to be paperless and centralise daily tasks
- Commmunicating efficiently using Teams
2 Future-proofing the Executive Assistant role with emerging technology
- Understanding Artificial intelligence: Friend or foe?
- Harnessing the power of ChatGPT to work effectively and avoid the pitfalls
- Mastering AI: Staying relevant as an Executive Assistant in the world of ChatGPT
- Enhancing your value as an Executive Assistant by keeping your skills relevant
3 Creating better time management for your Executive Assistant and Executive partnership
- Creating strategies to making more time in your day
- Managing your Executive’s time to focus on strategic goals
- Making time for you and your Executive to plan short- and long-term goals
- Diverting distractions to minimise disruption in your day
4 EA Panel: Prioritising multiple tasks to effect greater efficiency in your workday
- Identifying task and stakeholder importance to create meaningful deadlines
- Understanding the difference between deadlines to enable prioritisation
- Recognising whether multitasking or focus should be your strategy
- Knowing your peak performance time to prioritise complicated and simple tasks
5 Managing and influencing teams and resources
- Understanding Executive Assistant skills that enable practical inputs to build a great team to manage project deliverables
- Recruiting the optimal team that will fulfil identified business goals
- Cultivating a great team culture to attract internal and external candidates
- Creating a better team environment using communication strategies that help motivate difficult personalities
8 Identifying opportunities to grow and develop your career
- Understanding your strengths and passions and how you can align them to develop a rewarding career path
- Recognising and taking advantage of opportunities to use your initiative to broaden your experience
- Demonstratingcuriosity and commitment throughcontinuing professionaldevelopment and informal learning
- Setting a course for success by formulating KPIs that work for youand Executives to ensure continued growth
9 EA Panel : Modelling the future Executive Assistant
- Comparing what the modern-day Executive Assistant brings to the table versus the traditional Executive Assistant
- Generating the capacity to be proactive, anticipate needs, and get ahead of the tasks
- Value-adding as an Executive Assistant by being the strategic partner
- Adapting to the rapidly changing office environment’s work practices and technology
10 Leveraging networking opportunities to strengthen your organisational value
- Moving outside your comfort zone to broaden your circle of contacts
- Developing engaging conversation openers
- Cultivating contacts once made
- Deepening connections in the work world by maintaining contact
11 Developing resilience strategies to manage health and wellbeing
- Building trust to enhance confidential discussions with your Executive
- Achieving balance in the face of emergencies
- Fostering support networks away from work
- Slowing your mind to manage stress, anxiety and burnout
12 Delegating responsibilities to benefit everyone
- Delegating simpler tasks creates time for focus on major projects
- Providing clear instructions when passing on tasks
- Recognising that delegation does not confer accountability
- Mentoring to create opportunities to delegate
13 EA Panel: Working with your Executive as a strategic partner
- Building great rapport with your Executive or stakeholders cultivates good relationships to support your strategic partnership
- Tracking progress, collaborating with project teams, and providing insight to your Executive as a strategic partner
- Being succinct, clear, and becoming a sounding board enhances communication with your strategic partner
- Knowing the business to anticipate problems and solutions that arise
14 Translating Executive Assistant skills into project management to move upwards or across in your career
- Creating efficiencies through coordination and multitasking
- Remaining adaptable, agile, calm, effective to achieve results
- Maintaining document-management systems and being detail-oriented to maintain control
- Tracking progress to monitor team performance, assess data and metrics, and adjusting when required
15 Building your confidence and self-worth to realise your value
- Knowing your ability to deliver what you bring as an Executive Assistant
- Understanding the value of the abilities you bring as an Executive Assistant
- Ensuring your contributions are visible to the organisation
- Marrying your experience to opportunities that arise
16 Practising assertiveness as an Executive Assistant
- Winning friends and influencing people by being firm but fair
- Being proactive, not reactive in situations requiring assertiveness
- Using your role to lead to demonstrate purpose
- Influencing without perceived positional authority
17 Senior Executive Panel: Aligning your mindset with your Senior Executive to strengthen your strategic partnership
- Unpacking what is required within your strategic partnership
- Listing the skills, experiences, and values that Senior Executives seek
- Communicating effectively to foster a great working relationship
- Using your social skills to be CEO’s strongest ambassador
- Implementing effective and practical decision-making