for Presidential, Executive and Administrative Assistants
Building Personal and Team Excellence, and Project-Management and Negotiation Skills Applying best practices, new skills and Harvard University Global System™ Tools
Increasing Responsibilities and Demands on Your Precious Time
Important responsibilities, once reserved for managers, are now gradually assigned to competent assistants who learn
fast and are focused and tactful. There is a growing demand for these professionals who possess the skills to:
Workshop Objectives
Through practical exercises and real-life illustrations, this intensive workshop builds on the first seminar to equip you with tangible qualifications and tools to play a growing role in your team and excel. At the end of the complete program, you will be thoroughly prepared to act with clarity and impact—i.e.:
Detailed Outline (2 days - 1.5 CEU)
1. Professionalism for Presidential and Executive Assistants
2. Project-Management Skills to Take Charge
3. Rapid Progress-Tracking Tools and Skills
4. Negotiation Skills Critical to Your Success
5. Putting It All Together
Webinar Leader: Alain Paul MARTIN
 At the dawn of its inception, PDI led the world in gender
equity by delivering the first graduate-level leadership-skills program for women. Fast forward 15 years, and armed
with invaluable clients' experience in aerospace (Boeing, Bombardier, Canadian Space Agency, MDA), banking,
building & infrastructure (Skanska), mining (Boliden, Teck), defense and governments, we launched an ongoing initiative
to make Harvard® tools accessible (without compromising value) to everyone in our clients' project
teams. As a result, PDI led the world again us by delivering Advanced Workshops to enable Executive and Administrative
Assistants to excel in procurement negotiations and fully participate in team innovation, project management (strategy
formulation, scheduling, scarce-resource allocation, budgeting...) and progress control, as indicated in
the above
participant-testimonies' video on YouTube. Empowering Executive assistants, with skills of lasting value, is not
only fair, humane and dignified; but it is among the best evidence-based business investments yielding immediate returns.
Alain Paul Martin has a deep commitment and an extensive experience in mentoring, training and coaching executive, administrative and presidential assistants and their leaders, both the public and private sectors, NGOs and unions. While he teamed-up, in a wide variety of working conditions, both face-to-face and in virtual teams, with senior executives and their respective assistants, he has witnessed first-hand the grueling workload and challenges facing assistants, most of whom are competent, capable and dedicated professionals, eager to excel. That is why at Harvard University, he devoted an important part of his research to the advancement of administrative professionals in the workplace, to enable them to build and harness career opportunities of lasting value. He continues to focus on developing universally marketable collaborative, organizational, innovative and high-paying skills and practical tools, that make a difference to the users' performance and their organization, every working day, even during the COVID pandemic. He is credited by many of his professional-development alums to have had an inspiring and positive impact in their advanced education and upward mobility. As Chief Architect, Harvard University Global System™ and CEO, The Professional Development Institute, Alain continues to lead workshops/webinars and manage diverse work teams, innovation panels and advisory & policy boards, comprising executive and administrative assistants, managers, scientists, engineers, production, marketing & sales and other professionals of various levels in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Europe and Africa. He is a lifelong student and practitioner of innovation and decision sciences (leadership, system thinking, operations research, cognitive neuroscience, organization behavior and alternative dispute resolution). Alain is a 2012 Harvard Fellow, Advanced Leadership and a Harvard Business School's entrepreneurship alumnus (1997-99 OPM). He graduated in Commerce (Quantitative Methods) from Concordia University (Montréal) and studied advanced technology in Lille, France. He acquired skills in innovation, system thinking, change management and organization behavior at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland (GIC), and mediation and advanced negotiation for lawyers, at Harvard Law School, from which he is certified to teach negotiation in corporations. For more: C.V. in PDF format and at LinkedIn.
Workshop Locations and Hotel Accomodation
Tuition Fees
Registration and Cancellation Procedures
To register, please contact us either by:
Please pay in advance by credit card.
Cancellation Policy Participants registering as a group must send substitutes in lieu of canceling. For other clients, cancellations are accepted if made at least 10 working days prior to the course, and are subject to a $150 service charge per person. Full fees are payable by anyone who fails to attend or cancels less than 10 working days prior to the session. One substitution or transfer to a later course of the same duration is accepted.
Bring This Program to Your Organization
We deliver private versions of this program worldwide, online, at the client's site and in tailor-made hybrid variants,
to business and governments, NGOs and bar
associations and other societies. We would be delighted to work together with your team anywhere. Ask us
for a proposal based on the number of participants, the seminar duration, and a selection of cutting-edge
course materials and case studies, most applicable to your specific environment.
Our fees are reasonable. Sales and value-added taxes (HST and PST or VAT) are extra. The client is responsible for the conference room and audio-visual materials.
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