Why Choose PA/EA Mentoring?
Whether your Assistant is starting out as a PA, or a skilled EA strategist, professional guidance from an expert EA mentor with deep insights into the challenges of the Assistant role, is an excellent development resource that will help them to step up in their role and move forward in their career.
Executive offices should run seamlessly, like a well-oiled machine. Our consultants work with you to create a program that delivers what you want. We aim to take PAs, EAs, Admins and Team Secretaries from good to great so that the executive’s time can be freed up to do what they do best. If all PAs in your organization go through our mentoring program, your organization has the right to expect their PAs to perform their duties well.
Career mentoring is an effective way for Assistants to fast-track to an outstanding career. If you think about your Assistant’s career as similar to that of a star athlete, it will become clear that even with the right skill-set and attitude, and bucket loads of motivation, they still need a good mentor to show them how to best develop and utilize their talents.
The independent advice of a professional mentor will show your Assistant how to avoid falling back into old habits that are unproductive. Our EA Mentors will address their challenges, show them how to increase their executive’s productivity, and help them to plot a pathway to the top of the Assistant profession.
How We Can Help Your Assistants
We can help your Assistants with issues like building a strong strategic partnership, improving their performance, transitioning into a more senior role, career planning, and personal branding, and much more. Our comprehensive Action Plans help provide practical goals and objectives that ensure that the executive sees continuous improvement as the Assistant progresses from strength to strength.
We also offer a very comprehensive job search mentoring program that covers all aspects of the job search and interview process from the Assistant’s perspective. If Assistants in your organization are about to be laid off, a mentoring program is one of the development courtesies that your organization may be willing to finance as part of the Assistants’ outplacement program.
Organizations will benefit from the increased productivity demonstrated by their mentored Personal Assistants. Investing in a mentoring program will also help companies keep the people with career potential.
EA/PA Mentoring Programs
(6 months: online and/or telephone, plus emails)
Career mentoring is an excellent development tool for Assistants, particularly if they have reached a “glass ceiling” in their career, or are facing new challenges. This career mentoring program is a comprehensive 6-month program that consists of six 1-hour online and/or telephone conversations, plus email assistance. Clients will benefit from a comprehensive Action Plan with assignments that develop their skills and thinking. This responsive program allows Assistants to control a program of real world development activities, and set career and productivity goals for objectives. As a sounding board that provides confidential support and encouragement, we can also work with you on the following issues.
- Strategic partnerships
- Performance & relationships
- Line management strategy
- Preparing for promotion
- Personal branding
- Pay rise & job title change
- Personal development plan
- Creating a Career portfolio
- Improving performance review scores
- Job search strategy
(4 weeks: online and/or telephone, plus emails)
If you need intensive up skilling for a new job, or in preparation for a promotion, or you just need the advice and guidance of an expert EA mentor, this 4-week intensive program is for you. It consists of four 1-hour online and/or telephone sessions, email support, and detailed Action Plans with assignments and development goals.
(One 1-hour online or telephone session)
This mentoring option is ideal for Assistants on a tight budget, particularly those who are self-financing and need quick best practice advice and strategies for improving their performance. This is also a good option if you are looking for a new job with little success, and would like quick and effective strategies for getting and succeeding at the interview stage. This mentoring option consists of one 1-hour online or telephone session