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Open the door to a rewarding career as a Personal Assistant! From here, you could progress to a more in-depth Executive Assistant (EA) role where you’ll need more managerial level expertise.
Enquire nowWith the Professional Executive PA diploma, you’ll learn how to stay one step ahead, anticipating needs and meeting the demands of this challenging, yet rewarding role.
Awarded 380 CPD points upon successful completion
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With the Professional Executive PA diploma, you’ll learn how to stay one step ahead, anticipating needs and meeting the demands of this challenging, yet rewarding role.
Businesses throughout the UK recognise the Pitman Training name as a sign that you have been trained to the very highest level. Our diploma will give you the confidence to know that you’re one step closer to your dream job, promotion, or new career.
If you have your sights set on becoming the righthand person to a senior director or head of one of the UK’s top companies, the Professional Executive PA diploma is the right choice of training for you. You’ll get all the essential skills required to be an indispensable PA or EA, delivering reports, figures, forecasts and reports to enable decision making at the highest level, quickly and accurately.
If you’re looking to advance your career towards a Senior Personal Assistant or Executive Assistant role, this is a great training option.
Having a skillset that includes financial understanding and knowledge is essential if you want to fully support senior team members and upper management.
With this Diploma you also have the option to include Shorthand as a core course.
In just 25 hours speeds of 20-40+ words per minute are perfectly achievable, even if you have little prior experience. Comprising 10 lessons, you’ll also receive guidance on ergonomics, technique and accuracy.
For those needing high proficiency at touch-typing and keyboard skills. The course takes up to 42 hours and includes the alpha-numeric keys and high-end learning materials.
Our Microsoft Word course is designed to provide you with the essential skills you will need to be proficient in Word, in a work environment, in as short a time as possible.Â
This training course in Microsoft Word will propel your Word skills forward to an advanced level. Over several lessons, you’ll become confident in a range of Word’s more sophisticated features.Â
Microsoft Excel is the world’s most popular spreadsheet program. This course is suitable for beginner to intermediate level.
Over 10 self-paced lessons you’ll learn how to format your spreadsheet to best display your information, handle simple and complex formulas, insert charts, learn how to insert functions such as IFERROR and much much more.
Our Excel Expert level course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to use this popular spreadsheet programme to an advanced level. You will study a series of self-paced lessons you’ll learn how to perform tasks such as conditional formatting, recording and running macros, working with pivot tables and using statistical functions.
Our comprehensive PowerPoint training course will help you get to grips with this popular presentation software. Learning with us will teach you how to produce exciting presentations for effective communication in business.
This flexible study Outlook course takes you through everything you need to use this popular email system as a work tool, from navigation and views through contacts and appointments, to tasks and folders.
Audio Transcription is a valuable skill to gain, with applications in many industry sectors. This course will help you learn how to operate audio transcribing equipment and become proficient in document transcription.Â
Over four lessons you’ll cover topics such as understanding what a marketing plan is, how to carry out appropriate research, how websites are designed to market a company, effective advertising and the four P’s of marketing products.
If you work as a Secretary, Administrator, PA, EA or Office Manager for instance, your role may involve taking notes or minutes at meetings.
This one-day tutor-led seminar is one of our most popular seminars ideal for anyone involved in organising meetings and taking notes at those meetings. You'll learn how to prepare ahead of the meeting, how to take effective minutes and work effectively post-meeting to maximise your effectiveness and help manage your time effectively.Â
HR Essentials is an entry-level HR training course. You'll learn essential knowledge on area such as recruiting new staff, employment contracts, salary processing and maternity rights.
Time management training increases your productivity and efficiency - and this is the perfect time management course for anyone who wants to get more done in less time.Â
Social media is no longer just for keeping in touch with people on the other side of the world. It’s now very much recognised as a crucial business tool and powerful method of communication, no matter what sector you work in.
Learn how to use Facebook to promote and market your organisation. This course looks at how businesses can maximise their social media presence on this social media platform.
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This course will bring you up to speed in using LinkedIn in a business environment. You’ll learn how to get the most out of the platform, helping you capitalise on the millions of professional contacts within arm’s reach.
This e-learning course is different to most communication courses in that it focuses on the way that communications and information are managed within an organisation rather than personal communication techniques.
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This one-day master class helps you develop your ability to manage managers, mentor and inspire others.
Split into four engaging parts, this course takes you through the full life cycle of a project in terms of defining what it is, planning every aspect, implementation, completion and evaluation of a project.Â
This excellent course will raise your game when it comes to business communication skills, which is often top of the list of qualities demanded by employers.Â
This course will teach you what you need to know about Instagram, the popular image-sharing platform, and how it can help your business with its marketing.
In addition to the core courses, you also choose two additional elective courses. Below is a list of recommended courses but there is a wider list available. Please speak to a Course Advisor for full details of how best to tailor this Diploma to your requirements.
Amongst all our finance courses, Sage training is the most popular and the most in demand. This course brings you the skills you need to use this popular payroll program.
The course utilises CILEx specialist course materials and will introduce you to the various forms of documentation, terminology and processes associated with six different legal specialist including Family Law, Criminal Litigation and Conveyancing.
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If you’re completely new to payroll, this short course offers the opportunity for you to gain an insight into the underlying legislative and operational principles behind the processing of payroll.
This seminar is run on a one or two-day basis and takes an in-depth look at the role of the Executive PA and the importance of this role in any organisation. It is most appropriate for those who have recently been promoted to the role of PA or who wish to progress to a more senior level in the future.
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This is a fast, specialist course of 2-3 hours that will teach you how to touch-type using the numeric keypad, essential if you regularly input figures into a computer as part of your role.
Unlike many other health and safety training courses this is a flexible study course so you have the freedom to study whenever suits you. The interactive e-learning system makes this an extremely simple and useful health and safety course.
Over four lessons you’ll cover topics such as understanding what a marketing plan is, how to carry out appropriate research, how websites are designed to market a company, effective advertising and the four P’s of marketing products.
If you have or are thinking about setting up your own business, this course will provide you with an essential grounding in the basics of business structure and law.
Learn some tricks of the trade and really get to grips with event project management to ensure your events are always ones people are talking about for all the right reasons.
Our SpeedWriting course is a new way to learn the BakerWrite™ SpeedWriting system in just six hours. It will help you accurately record the spoken word, to speeds over 40 wpm.
If you have completed our Teeline Fast course and want to increase your speed, or are looking to hone your speed skills, then this course is for you.
This course will take you from novice to a Pitman Teeline shorthand speed of 40 words per minute. Beginning with the basics we’ll lead you gently into shorthand Teeline style step-by-step.
This course helps you learn commonly used medical terminology across a wide range of disciplines. You’ll have the opportunity to achieve the City & Guilds/AMSPAR Level 2 Award and/or Level 3 Certificate in Medical Terminology qualification.
This course is specifically designed for those wishing to learn how to create a business-focused website. You’ll learn about designing the site and how to develop and enhance it.
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An understanding of how to utilise Microsoft Access to its best is a highly worthwhile skill to have at your command. This is a popular database application that is widely used across many employment sectors.
No pre-requisites are required to study this diploma.
Wherever possible our training is tailored to your needs. The cost of our training programmes depend on the course(s) you choose and varies according to duration and breadth. Rest assured we have a number of payment options available to ensure the cost of training is affordable and can be worked alongside your other financial commitments. Common ways people fund their training include: -Â
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Requesting funding from your employers needn’t be a daunting task. Many employers support and encourage their employees with their professional development and consider it a worthwhile investment to fund any training required.
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There may be the opportunity to apply for funded grants that can help towards the cost of training. These include the Skills Development Scotland ITAs and the ReAct programme in Wales. All schemes will have different terms and conditions that will need to be met in order to qualify for a grant and these are managed by each individual centre.
We’d recommend you speak to a Course Advisor in your local centre to find out whether they are registered to offer any such schemes and discuss your requirements further.
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Our PA training can open the door to a rewarding career as a Personal Assistant. From here you could progress to a more in-depth Executive Assistant (EA) role, where you’ll need more managerial level expertise.
Alternatively, you could decide to be the master of your own career and use your skills to work as a Virtual Assistant (VA), where you can dictate your own schedule and workload.
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