Executive Assistant Upskilling & High Performance Seminar Series
Grow as a successful executive assistant & business partner
In an increasingly busy and complex world, the role of the assistant is more important than ever. Calm, clarity, and focus are essential for modern executives to perform in their roles. Therefore, it is vital that you have the skills and capabilities as an assistant to support them and help your organisation function at a high level.
Join this refreshed seminar series to elevate Executive Assistants to a new strategic and tactical excellence level. This series is designed to educate you in the skills needed to be the glue in your executive’s network and to empower you with AI tools that optimise your effectiveness (even if your particular organisation is dragging its feet). Through these sessions, you’ll strengthen your capacity to collaborate with stakeholders and adapt to varied contexts. You’ll become the vital, empowering link within your executive’s network, combining mastery, adaptive communication, and technology-driven efficiency. As you enhance your capabilities, you’ll establish yourself as the indispensable support at the centre of your executive’s success.
Your event experience
A toolkit of takeaway resources – Walk away with a refreshed toolkit of practical resources, frameworks and hacks that you will be able to implement immediately to help you reach your professional development goals
Live Coaching – Ask your burning questions and get live coaching plus input from the group with the chat transcript provided following the session so you can capture all the wisdom shared
Short, sharp and value-packed sessions – Designed to fit around your busy schedule, maximise your learnings and put theory into practice across the four week series
A highly engaging, highly rated facilitator – Tara is an experienced facilitator and will keep you engaged throughout each session
An incredible networking opportunity – You will be placed in small working teams to cultivate new and lasting relationships with fellow leaders
Tara Claydon
Director of Business and Coaching, Nexus Ally
Tara began her career as an officer in the Navy, where she developed a foundation of discipline, strategic thinking and leadership under pressure. Following her service, she spent years as an Executive Assistant, honing her expertise in supporting high-level leaders, managing complex priorities and navigating organisational dynamics with precision and impact.
Today, Tara combines her military and corporate experience to specialise in coaching emerging leaders and Executive Assistants, helping them step confidently into their full potential. She empowers professionals to move from reactive roles to strategic influence, fostering resilience, clarity and high-performance within teams.
Tara Claydon
Tara began her career as an officer in the Navy, where she developed a foundation of discipline, strategic thinking and leadership under pressure. Following her service, she spent years as an Executive Assistant, honing her expertise in supporting high-level leaders, managing complex priorities and navigating organisational dynamics with precision and impact.
Today, Tara combines her military and corporate experience to specialise in coaching emerging leaders and Executive Assistants, helping them step confidently into their full potential. She empowers professionals to move from reactive roles to strategic influence, fostering resilience, clarity and high-performance within teams.
Through hands-on coaching, immersive workshops, and practical tools, Tara helps leaders and teams build stronger connections, communicate effectively and achieve measurable results, all while developing the confidence to lead with authenticity and purpose.
Key benefits
Cultivate skills to strengthen your ability to protect the time and energy of your business leader
Craft your personal brand to reflect the value you bring to your role and the outcomes and impacts you deliver
Unlock the potential of AI and automation tools to free up time for high value work
Reset new and existing relationships with your leader and other stakeholders using the skills you will develop
Who will attend
This series is best suited for new to mid-level executive and personal assistants, executive officers and administrative professionals looking to build their confidence, improve their productivity, and elevate themselves with essential soft skills.
As a result, this series may not be suitable for very senior executive assistants.
Agenda
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Acknowledgement of Country & Opening remarks
Seminar One: Elevating Your Role Through the Five Pillars of Strategic Support
This session shifts you out of reactive mode and into intentional, influential, future-focused support. You’ll learn the five pillars that underpin high-level strategic assistance, and how to apply them in real time to stay ahead, reduce overwhelm and create meaningful impact in your role.
In this session, you will:
- Understand the five pillars that define high-level, strategic support
- Strengthen your ability to think ahead, manage priorities with clarity and read the play before it happens
- Learn practical, grounded strategies to move from “doing the tasks” to shaping outcomes, supporting decisions and anticipating what your executive truly needs
This seminar sets the foundation for leading with confidence, clarity and consistency.
Close of Seminar One
Acknowledgement of Country & Opening remarks
Seminar Two: Communicating With Authority, Clarity & Influence
Your words are one of your most powerful tools, not just for communication, but for influence, boundaries, leadership and trust. This session teaches you how to communicate in a way that lands, leads and elevates your presence in every room.
In this session, you will:
- Develop confident, concise communication that strengthens your leadership presence
- Learn how to adapt your language for executives, peers and stakeholders without people-pleasing or diluting your authority
- Build the skills to assert boundaries, navigate pressure and communicate expectations clearly, so you stay effective without burning out
This session helps you step fully into the kind of communication that makes you trusted, respected and listened to.
Close of Seminar Two
Acknowledgement of Country & Opening remarks
Seminar Three: Using AI to Work Smarter, Protect Your Energy & Strengthen Your Strategic Value
AI isn’t about doing your job for you, it’s about giving you the mental space to lead, think strategically and stay ahead. In this seminar, you’ll learn how to use AI as a supportive tool that reduces workload, increases accuracy and elevates your value without adding pressure.
In this session, you will:
- Learn the essential AI tools that streamline scheduling, organisation, communication and research
- Discover how AI can support proactive thinking, gathering insights, anticipating needs and helping you see the bigger picture
- Implement simple, sustainable ways to integrate AI into your workflow so you can protect your energy, stay ahead of tasks and focus on the strategic work that matters
This session helps you work smarter, operate with clarity and maintain high performance without burnout.
Close of Seminar Three
Pricing
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I highly recommend The Hatchery’s EA Upskilling and High Performance seminar series. The seminars are full of engaging and relevant content to apply to your day to day to take your EA capability to the next level. Tara was a great presenter, knowledgeable and relatable. It was also a great way to connect with like-minded EAs, share experiences and learnings.
Tanya Helliar
Executive Assistant Strategy & Organisational Performance, Baw Baw Shire Council, 2026
The EA Upskilling course was practical, motivating and instantly useful. It sharpened the way I work.
Annette Bender
Executive Support Officer, Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board, 2026
I will definitely use what I got out of this training.”
Rosalie Barraquio
Executive Assistant, NSW Health, August 2025, Executive Assistant Upskilling & High Performance Seminar Series
Very comprehensive and informative.”
Giordana Ienco
Executive Assistant, Department of Premier and Cabinet VIC, August 2025, Executive Assistant Upskilling & High Performance Seminar Series
Attending the seminar series was a game-changer for me. Each session was thoughtfully designed to build on the last, covering everything from strategic communication to time management and digital tools. I gained practical skills, fresh perspectives, and renewed confidence in my role.”
Theresa Blanch
Executive Assistant, Northern New South Wales Local Health District, August 2025, Executive Assistant Upskilling & High Performance Seminar Series
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