{"id":4495,"date":"2014-11-24T16:19:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T06:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pdtraining.com.au\/blog\/?p=4495"},"modified":"2014-11-24T16:20:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T06:20:52","slug":"self-development-for-personal-assistants-and-secretaries-foundation-skills-for-pas-and-executive-assistants-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pdtraining.com.au\/blog\/executive-assistant-traning\/self-development-for-personal-assistants-and-secretaries-foundation-skills-for-pas-and-executive-assistants-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Self Development for Personal Assistants and Secretaries – Foundation Skills for PA’s and Executive Assistants – Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"

Executive assistants perform various types of work in a day and, therefore, need various skills to become successful.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Enhance your personality and skills<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you are a personal assistant looking for self-development, then participate in Foundation Skills for PA’s and Executive Assistants<\/a> delivered by pdtraining in Melbourne and other cities in Australia.<\/p>\n

Personal assistants need to manage, organise, schedule, and plan events and communications. Along with managing tasks, they need to manage themselves too. For both personal and professional development, executive assistants need training.<\/p>\n

There are two methods of getting trained: one is to self-train and the other is to receive training from experts in the field. Self-training is more convenient, but takes longer. Professional training, on the other hand, provides quick and more targeted learning, but has a cost. Whether you choose to self-learn or use professional training, these are the areas that you need to work on:<\/p>\n

Management<\/strong><\/p>\n

The most essential skill for executive assistants is the management of tasks and time<\/a>. Prioritising tasks is a method of organising that saves time and helps in the successful completion of tasks. You may make separate lists of important and urgent tasks. Important tasks may be long-term, and urgent tasks will be short-term. After completing urgent tasks, which are again prioritised, you may move to important tasks (which you can prioritise).<\/p>\n

Effective management not only saves time, but also makes your job less stressful and chaotic. By managing tasks well, you benefit in saving time, and visa versa.<\/p>\n

Communication<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even though communication may not make it to the list of important skills to develop for most of us, it has the power of changing attitudes, behaviour and decisions. If you have the capability to say what you ought to say at the right time, then you will see the following benefits:<\/p>\n