Training for EA/PAs
INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS especially designed to help PA/EAs become calm, centred and confident and therefore more effective in personal and professional life.
The role of the modern PA can often be very stressful, undervalued, more reactive than proactive with reward and remuneration out of sync with the quality of skill delivered.
Choose from Catherine’s signature programmes:
- Grace Under Pressure
- Leading from Behind
- Power through Calmness
- or suggest a topic to suit your current needs;
As a result of training participants will have:
- Improved self-management and people skills
- Multiple effective tools and techniques for immediate use
- Confidence to apply in daily life.
- Skills to stay calm, focused and centred and inspire the same in others
- Clarity of purpose in the company and confidence to lead projects
- Motivation to deliver results efficiently and effectively
You will take away: READY TO APPLY TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES BONUSES, FREEBIES, TIPS SHEETS
“One of the most useful courses I have ever been on as an Executive Assistant. It has really helped me deal with the day-to-day stresses of office life.” Rebecca EA.
“Thoroughly enjoyed! Good fun, lovely people, hugely beneficial.” Anna PA
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Corporate / Business Workshops and Courses
The following workshops and courses can also be customised to suit
Catherine also delivers the above workshops and courses specifically for:
Women in Business, PA/EA’s, HR’s, Teams, Managers and C-Level as one off themed workshops, courses, beginner through to advanced and at residential weekends.
- Managing Stress – 21st Century Survival Skills! Ready to use tools to develop a calmer and more balanced approach to be more effective in personal and professional life.
- Overcoming Imposter Syndrome – self-acceptance and how to own your achievements.
- Mentoring – key strategies for managing, guiding and inspiring.
- Personal branding – What makes you unique.
- Enlightened Leadership – How to lead in a changing world
- The Imperative Paradox: Improve vital skills for innovation, creativity and progression.
- Working Apart, together: Helping teams with diverse skills, interrelate and achieve more
- Improve relationships, improve your prospects: Building relationships, creating rapport.
About Catherine
“The qualities that underlie all positive human endeavour and success are not ‘soft’ but ‘CORE” skills – and they can be learnt.”
CATHERINE ARDEN
Catherine Arden, former Royal Navy, draws from over 25 years’ experience as a theatre director, trainer, and speaker. She has delivered her tailor-made, drama -based training to adults and youth, covering a wide range of topics and themes.
Catherine has helped hundreds of people in the Corporate, Education and Public/ Social Sectors, including C-level, Directors, Managers, PA/EA’s, high achievers, disadvantaged youth, parents, teachers, in the UK and Internationally.
Our work with business and corporations
Give your organisation the professional edge!
Executives and employees across the corporate sphere, companies large and small, have already benefited from Catherine’s in-depth knowledge, engaging style, and invigorating workshop content.
Among the many clients Catherine has delivered workshops and courses for:
Black Rock’s ACE EPP, Executive Presence Programme and ACE Connects. Bank of America, Citco Financial Services Group, Redmayne and Bentley Stock Brokers, Framestore/Cultural Investment Holdings, Hilton International and more
Catherine has also worked in partnership delivering workshops with the LPAN for The PA Show and as a speaker at International CONFEX, Olympia.
What Clients Say
Catherine’s workshop programme is a call to arms for all types of leaders of every age in every corner of the planet.
I found it hugely beneficial and it is one of the most useful courses I have ever been on as an Executive Assistant. It has really helped me deal with the day-to-day stresses of office life I thoroughly enjoyed the workshop – good fun too
Catherine delivered training sessions in management that are exceptional and have produced results.
I felt really centred by the end of the session and want to learn and improve my state of being more as this will be a great advantage when dealing with people on a day to day basis.
The group was still buzzing after the session. Response from the workshop is all very positive. Thank you again for the session, the group really enjoyed and got a lot from it
My thanks to Catherine for her message I am regenerated and re-energised by the last two days and am looking forward to going to the office on Monday morning, something I haven’t felt for a long time.
Interactive Drama Based Workshop Courses
The fun, practical issue-based workshops help participants realise potential, learn and experience how their value system and choices impact positively in different scenarios.
The individual becomes more empowered and skilled to make choices that have mutual benefit and support the success of any project or endeavor.
Benefits
- Immediate impact
- High knowledge retention
- Helps your people build on strengths
- Gain new perspectives and fresh insights
- Break down barriers
- Increase motivation and self-confidence
How we work with your organisation
We enhance your people power by:
- Getting to know you and your company by exploring what is important to your success.
- Creating a tailor-made programme to help you achieve that.
- Helping your people to explore, through specially designed interactive exercises, the things that get in the way of individual and collective success.
- Providing a safe environment to explore and experiment with new ways to improve relationships with self and others.
- Enabling your people to start using their new skills, right away.
- We can do follow up and monitoring sessions to guide and support to help them fly.
After the programme:
- Your people will have a clear understanding of their own potential and that of others
- They will have a clear awareness of what gets in the way of healthy interaction and creating good relationships and enabling innovation.
- They will be able to correct themselves and help others.
- They will have the confidence to do it in your work and in life that very same day
Effectiveness
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Using business metrics Catherine offers qualitative and quantitative feedback analysis and the opportunity to follow up at 3 and 6 months to monitor impact and support progress.
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+44 (0)7985 590 835
info@catherinearden.co.uk
Catherine Arden is a Trainer, Speaker and Theatre Director.
Catherine helps people, adults, and youth, across Corporate, Education and Social/Public sectors, express and apply good values and ethics - the core skills that underlie all positive human endeavour, interaction and success.
Drawing from her expertise as a Theatre Director she specialises in creating and delivering interactive, bespoke, drama based, training workshop courses that are fun, practical and entertaining with in-depth and high knowledge retention that have immediate impact.