make your choice, and then make your business case for premium, ongoing professional development
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What you get
whether you enrol in ea aCCELERATOR OR EA GOVERNANCE ACCELERATOR, YOU’LL GAIN …
- one on demand course module a month, 10 months of the year; modules typically range in length from 60 – 90+ minutes each
- quarterly live, interactive group sessions with Shelagh and fellow subscribers on Zoom; Shelagh will rotate start times
- a PDF workbook with each on demand course, to help you progress from theory to implementing skills and concepts
- an orientation email and video
- additional resources, including links to related articles
- certificates upon completion of individual modules
- quality and incredible value; Shelagh’s known for her expertise and engaging presentation style that helps you learn … and, delivered outside this subscription package, her fee for any of these courses on their own ranges from $99 to $199 US per participant
EAA: Executive Assistant Accelerator
EA ACCELERATOR (EAA)
Skills and insights, at your convenience throughout the year
Evolve with the career, whether this means maintaining or elevating your skills and currency. Just as air traffic controllers play critical roles even though they guide rather than fly planes, you can positively impact and influence people and outcomes without being the person atop your org chart.
Whether you support a team, a single executive or a number of leaders, internal and external parties with vested interests may be impacted by your performance. You need to be informed and attuned to what’s going on all around you. It makes sense to align your efforts and development with organizational needs and priorities.
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EACH YEAR, SHELAGH’S 10 ON DEMAND EA ACCELERATOR (EAA) COURSE moduleS INCLUDE SELECTIONS FROM THE TOPICS BELOW.
in addition, shelagh will draw on a combination of these courses, your goal progression/accountability and emergent topics as the themes for our quarterly live group sessions.
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MEETINGS, MINUTES, WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS
- Less is More: Elevating Your Minutes – Parts One and Two (core courses)
- Business Writing: Skills for Positive Reputational Impacts
- Systems and Strategies for Effective, Efficient and Strategically Focused Meetings
FACING AND ADDRESSING CHALLENGES TO PERFORMANCE AND OUTCOMES
- Elevate Your Performance and Wellbeing By Managing Time, Self and Expectations
- Empathy and Clarity for Difficult People and Situations
- How to Move Forward from a Career Setback with Clarity and Resilience
- Strategies and Language for Professionally Asserting and Promoting Yourself
- Cyber Savvy: Insights and Tips to Mitigate Risks in Your Career and Personal Life
ASPIRATIONS: PRESENCE, VISIBILITY, INFLUENCE, IMPACT
- Professional Presence: Influence, Confidence and Credibility
- Plan and Build Your Career, Rather than Watching It Unfold
- Personal Branding, Image and Visibility
- Leadership Begins With Managing Ourselves
- Communication and Public Speaking Strategies: Develop Earned Confidence
- Interview Prep: Plan to Make a Compelling Case for Your Candidacy
- New in Your Role: A Roadmap for Your First 90 Days
- From Peer to Team Leader: Strategies for Success
- Onboarding New Colleagues, Including Your Executive, for Success
PERSONAL and CAREER RESILIENCE; THRIVE
- Prioritizing Resilience Over Perfectionism for High Performance
- Thriving Within the C-Suite or Boardroom: Relationship Management
- Position and Prepare Yourself for Your Best Possible Performance Review
- Negotiation Skills and Strategies
EAGA: Executive Assistant Governance Accelerator
EA Governance accelerator (eaga)
at last! ONGOING training geared to those who support boards
.The EAGA subscription is a wise choice for those who support or aspire to support a board. It’s also beneficial if you support C-level executives who report to a board, as you’ll gain perspective on why boards function as they do, and their expectations of management.
EAGA modules provide clarity on roles, responsibilities, accountabilities and principles of good governance. We focus on board-management relations, on the significance of role you as a liaison have on board and organizational success, and much more. In addition to quarterly live sessions, Shelagh provides 10 on demand courses each year from the list below.
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EACH YEAR, SHELAGH’S 10 ON DEMAND EAGA COURSE moduleS INCLUDE SELECTIONS FROM THE TOPICS BELOW.
in addition, shelagh will draw on a combination of these courses, your goal progression/accountability and emergent topics as the themes for our quarterly live group sessions.
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PRINCIPLES OF GOOD GOVERNANCE
- An Introduction to Governance and Core Functions of Your Role (core course)
RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT and SUCCESS IN YOUR ROLE
- Great Expectations: Board Management and Relations (core course)
- Thriving Within the C-Suite or Boardroom: Relationship Management
- Professional Presence: Influence, Confidence and Credibility
- Adding Value Through Connections, Networks and Relationship Management
- Empathy and Clarity for Difficult People and Sensitive Situations
- Negotiation Skills and Strategies
- Personal Branding, Image and Visibility
- When an Organisational Crisis Hits: What You Need to Know
- Navigating Leadership Changes
BOARD AND COMMITTEE MEETINGS
- Preparing Board Level Minutes With Confidence: Parts One and Two (core courses)
- Systems and Strategies for More Effective, Efficient and Strategically Focused Meetings
BOARD CULTURE and SUCCESS
- Onboarding New Board Members and Building a Board Mentorship Program
- Board Composition, Competency Matrix and Succession Planning
- Board Evaluations
ACUMEN: GAINING INSIGHTS ON BOARD LEVEL PRIORITIES
- Introduction to Risk Management
- Cybersecurity, Cyber Awareness and Board Communications
- Introduction to Strategic Planning
- Introduction to Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG)
Course modules typically range from 60 to 75 minutes in duration, and include PDF workbooks to help you implement what you learn.
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who are eaa AND eaga for?
Whether you live in the heart of a city, the suburbs, or a rural or remote community, enrolling in either series of courses is for you if …
- you view what you do as a career
- you want to thrive personally while performing at a high level
- it’s important to you to elevate and maintain career currency and resilience
- you enjoy and recognise the value of lifelong learning
- you/you and your employer make discerning investments in success
- time is a precious commodity, and you value being able to focus and learn when and where it suits you, rather than competing with business needs or your home life
- you like the idea of connecting live each quarter with Shelagh and your counterparts, and the personal and professional networking potential this represents
If any of the above sound like you, you’ll find either of these subscriptions valuable, whatever your position title or stage of career, and wherever you live.
subscribe and thrive
Skills currency, credibility, trust, relationship management, effective communications, adaptability, resilience and well earned confidence are some elements of career success.
I’ve got you covered with your choice of EA Accelerator or EA Governance Accelerator. Investing in your professional development and performance also positively impacts those you support.
whatever your career stage
Rather than basing your professional development choices on your current position/job title or stage of career, make choices based on a combination of factors.
- your own aspirations
- career currency and resilience
- capacity to add value in the face of organizational, sectoral challenges, opportunities and priorities
Be in the know
Click on the “I’M INTERESTED” link below, and use Shelagh’s contact form to ask her to let you know when registrations open.
LIVE SESSIONS, connections
In addition to 10 on demand courses over the course of a year, positioning you to learn at your convenience, my quarterly live sessions are open to all subscribers.
Assistants around the globe have already forged connections through my website and interviews; Think of the valuable relationships you can build as you participate in these quarterly sessions.
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Your investment
You can find less expensive subscriptions. You won’t find another subscription package that provides Shelagh’s depth and breadth of expertise, her training skills, and the relevance of her content. Watch here for an upcoming link to messaging to support your business case for this professional development.
Enrol in EA Accelerator (EAA) for the introductory price of $59 US a month, which converts to approximately £45 or €53 monthly. If prepaying your annual EAA subscription in full is practical for you or your employer, introductory pricing is $550 US annually. That converts to approximately £419 or €497, and frees up $158 (approximately £120 or €143) you can put to good use elsewhere.
Enrol in EA Governance Accelerator (EAGA) for the introductory price of $69 US a month, which converts to approximately £53 or €62 monthly. If prepaying your annual EAA subscription in full is practical for you or your employer, introductory pricing is $650 US annually. That converts to approximately £495 or €588, and frees up $178 (approximately £136 or €171) you can put to good use elsewhere.
Shelagh earned Advanced Good Governance certification through Colleges Ontario, and benefitted from additional governance education through Canada’s Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) and the USA’s Association of Governing Boards (AGB).
She is a proud member of Governance Professionals of Canada (GPC), and has written multiple governance articles published by Diligent Corporation: A Modern Governance Company.
Shelagh’s presentations reflect her own ongoing education and all that comes with a decade’s experience as a governance/board professional with responsibility for board operations. She has also chaired a national board herself.
““Shelagh is the number one world trainer when it comes to quality governance training for EAs.” – Jacqueline M. Leib, USA