Conference, onsite and webinar training, tailored to your needs

Assistants: What are your professional development priorities at this point in time? Immediately below, grouped under different areas of focus for professional development, you can find and check my presentations to see which ones align with the skills you want to hone.

Clicking on the name of a presentation will take you to a one-page PDF highlighting learning objectives and other info to help support decision making. You can also turn to my Eventbrite page to check out which of these courses I’ll be presenting via webinars in the next few weeks.

Event planners: Here’s a sampling of my presentations and workshops, any of which I’ll happy customize for your conference or onsite training needs. You may want to also look at the page I’ve created for event planners; you’ll find my bio, references and other helpful resources when you click here. You’re also welcome to click here to send an online request and begin a discussion of how I can help.

For details on any presentation, just click on the title for a PDF that provides a summary and key learning objectives/takeaways.

KEYNOTES, MOTIVATIONAL PRESENTATIONS

1. Resilience, Motivation and Goals: Aligning Your Career Development with New Norms
2. Your Brand, Influence and Emotional Intelligence: Lessons from the Org Chart
3. Your Post-Pandemic Career: Making the Most of Your Potential
4. Choosing Resilience Over Perfection

MEETINGS: AGENDAS, WORK PLANS, MINUTES and MORE

1. Less is More: Elevating Your Minutes
2. Best Practices for Virtual and Hybrid Meetings
3. Business Communications: Honing Skills and Reputations
4. How to Survive and Thrive When You’re Responsible for Multiple Committees

COMMUNICATIONS, INFLUENCE, EMOTIONAL AND CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE

1. Choosing Resilience Over Perfection
2. How to Assert Yourself So People See Your Value
3. How to Be Productive and Effective  Working Remotely or As Part of A Hybrid Team
4. Your Brand, Influence and Emotional Intelligence: Lessons from the Org Chart
5. How to Establish an Internal Network … and Why It’s A Smart Move for You and Your Organisation – PDF to follow
6. How to Negotiate, and Why You Should Hone this Career Skill
7. How to Use LinkedIn for Visibility, Networking and Communiating Your Brand
8. Stakeholder Relations: Hone Your Influence and Leadership Skills – PDF to follow
9. Business Communications: Honing Skills and Reputations

PRODUCTIVITY, EFFECTIVENESS

1. Choosing Resilience Over Perfection
2. Resilience, Motivation and Goals: Aligning Your Career Development with New Norms
3. How to Be Productive and Effective, Working Remotely or as Part of a Hybrid Team – PDF to follow

ADDING VALUE DURING THE PANDEMIC and IN YOUR POST-PANDEMIC CAREER

1. Resilience, Motivation and Goals: Aligning Your Career Development with New Norms
2. Best Practices for Virtual and Hybrid Meetings
3. Business Communications: Honing Skills and Reputations
4. Choosing Resilience Over Perfection
5. Cybersecurity for the Digitally Dependent – PDF to follow
6. How to Be Productive and Effective  Working Remotely or As Part of A Hybrid Team
7. How to Establish an Internal Network … and Why It’s A Smart Move for You and Your Organisation – PDF to follow
8. Your Post-Pandemic Career: Making the Most of Your Potential
9. Onboarding New Colleagues – Including Strategies for Onboarding Your New Executive – PDF to follow
10. Stakeholder Relations: Hone Your Influence and Leadership Skills – PDF to follow

CAREER CHANGE; JOB SEARCH

1. How to Prepare and Build Confidence for Job Interviews, Whatever Your Age and Stage of Career – PDF to follow

LEADERSHIP and BUSINESS ACUMEN

1. Introduction to Risk Management – PDF to follow
2. How to Establish an Internal Network … and Why It’s A Smart Move for You and Your Organisation – PDF to follow
3. Your Brand, Influence and Emotional Intelligence: Lessons from the Org Chart
4. How to Negotiate, and Why You Should Hone this Career Skill
5. Lessons from the Org Chart: Ignite Your Influence and Build Authority – PDF to follow
6. Office Management: Skills and Strategies to Help in the Transition from Peer to Leader – PDF to follow
7. Project Management for Assistants – PDF to follow

ADAPTING WITH TECHNOLOGY

1. Cybersecurity for the Digitally Dependent – PDF to follow

GOVERNANCE: SUPPORTING A BOARD

1. An Introduction to Governance: What a Board Does, and How to Support Those High Achievers
2. Best Practices for Virtual and Hybrid Meetings
3. Business Communications: Honing Skills and Reputations
4. Cybersecurity for the Digitally Reliant – PDF to follow
5. Great Expectations: Board Management and Relations
6. Your Brand, Influence and Emotional Intelligence: Lessons from the Org Chart
7. How to Survive and Thrive When You’re Responsible for Multiple Committees
8. Introduction to Risk Management – PDF to follow
9. Onboarding New Board Members – PDF to follow

SOCIAL MEDIA

1. How to Use LinkedIn for Visibility, Networking and Communiating Your Brand

Click here if you’d like to see what assistants, conference organizers and clients have to say about the training Shelagh delivers. Shall we talk? To discuss your plans and needs, drop an email to ExceptionalEAs@gmail.com