Executive Assistant Upskilling & High Performance
Grow as a successful executive assistant & business partner
Thoughtfully designed to fit around your busy schedule, this interactive three-part series will provide you with the tools you need to feel empowered and step into your full potential as an executive assistant. Highly practical, it balances the How with the Why, leaving you feeling confident to elevate the support you provide. Interactive and engaging, you’ll leave each session with key takeaways you can embed immediately.
Join (former) seasoned EA, facilitator, Forbes contributor and podcast host Rachael Bonetti to learn how to cultivate your self-mastery, best practices, business knowledge, presence and leadership to become an Elite EA.
Rachael Bonetti
Keynote Speaker, Forbes Contributor, Podcast Host & Founder
Elite EA Academy
My ways of working, thinking and best practices saved 8+ hours a week for CEOs, increased efficiencies and eased friction and peak pressure periods across organisations. I built administration dream teams through creating finely tuned capability frameworks, impactful best practices and ways of working and targeted recruitment that supported creating internal career runways. I made the development of my teams a priority in every organisation I worked in.
Rachael Bonetti (She/Her)
As a high performing career executive assistant for nearly 30 years, I supported thought leaders, change makers, CEOs, Chairs and a high profile billionaire across many industries and sectors, both private and public companies and I physically worked/lived in 7 countries. I have experience in multiple corporate crises, Royal Commissions, serious economic downturn (the GFC), the Pandemic, leadership changes (C-Suite, Chair and CEO), large scale restructures and acquisitions and sales of businesses.
My ways of working, thinking and best practices saved 8+ hours a week for CEOs, increased efficiencies and eased friction and peak pressure periods across organisations. I built administration dream teams through creating finely tuned capability frameworks, impactful best practices and ways of working and targeted recruitment that supported creating internal career runways. I made the development of my teams a priority in every organisation I worked in.
I now leverage this deep experience as a consultant, corporate trainer, writer, international public speaker and lifelong, passionate advocate for executive assistants. Since 2019 I have been creating and delivering highly impactful public and private masterclasses, workshops and courses that elevate the administration community. Essentially, I provide the development I wished existed as I moved throughout my career.
My clients say they love working with me for my grounded, warm and empathetic approach, refreshing honesty and my ability to relate to what my clients are experiencing. They’ve said they love being able to leverage my deep, unique experience to find practical solutions to the challenges they’re facing in their roles and careers.
Why attend
Cultivate a growth mindset to get out of your own way to reach your full potential
Find balance and resilience under pressure and work in a healthy high performance zone
Strategies to partner with your executive and move beyond a transactional dynamic
Learn how to directly enable the success of your executive and organisation
Understand how and where to focus time and energy to create the highest impact
Back yourself fully, ditch self-doubt and learn to think and show up like an executive
What to expect:
- The support and guidance of an expert
- Workshopping exercises in each seminar to practically learn the concepts covered
- Real world learning with practical examples and case studies
- Walk away with a toolkit of practical resources, frameworks, tools that you will be able to implement immediately in your role and organisation
- 100% online with excellent connectivity facilitated by our premier event platform and experienced IT, AV and delivery teams
Agenda
All times shown are in AEDT
Mindset mastery: Move through roadblocks & develop a mindset that supports growth & career longevity
High performing assistants understand a growth mindset is critical to career success. In this session we’ll explore the unique challenges assistants experience in the profession, the common mindset blocks that lead to career plateaus, self doubt and existing in the comfort zone. We’ll myth-bust the perception of “just an admin” and empower you to show up confidently and own your authority.
Key takeaways from Seminar 1:
- How to develop a positive and growth mindset ⠀⠀
- Strategies and tools that support empowerment
- How your mindset directly supports your career progression, ability to influence and gain credibility, trust and respect
Developing impactful, strategic partnerships
The best use of an executive’s time is their one-to-one with their assistant, and yet it’s often the first time sacrificed in the calendar when conflicting priorities arise. In this session Rachael breaks down the art and the science of cultivating a dynamic that gets an executive and their broader team out of a reactive state and into one where expectations are managed, deliverables are on time, every time and pressure is eased across the team. You’ll get the tried, tested and proven to be successful strategies that supported Rachael in her long career.
Key takeaways from Seminar 2:
- How to work smarter, not harder, using business reporting and tools to guide your focus and your executive’s to where it will have the greatest impact
- Understand how to lead your executive into a partnership through meaningful and high-value one to ones.
- The art of forward planning today to create spaciousness into the future
Amplifying presence & leadership potential
In this session we focus on getting you recognised for all the right reasons through developing executive presence. Understand how others experience you and the skills, qualities and attributes that distinguish the assistants who are regarded as talent and not resources.
Key takeaways from Seminar 3:
- Learn the art of seeking feedback and why it supports your development
- Discover the 5 key pillars to develop to your personal brand and a presence that guarantees career growth, credibility and access to opportunities
- Balance the demands of a high-pressure profession with prioritising your own needs, ensuring career longevity and avoiding burnout.
Pricing
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Fantastic course with many great hacks & resources to help me do my job better!”
Michelle Gataric
Executive Assistant, Australian Taxation Office
The seminars were extremely insightful, interactive and delved into topics core to our busy and complex roles as Executive Assistants.”
Joanne Caligari
Executive Assistant, Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action VIC
Great webinar. I gained new tools and information that have already helped me in my role.”
Peggy Conridge
Executive Assistant, NSW Department of Customer Service
I enjoyed the seminar and thought the interaction with other PA’s was great! I look forward to reading and listening to all your suggestions.”
Lisa Castle
Assistant to the Directors
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