Facilitated by Irene Stavast

The Future for Africa Secretarial and

Office Administrators Summit
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 • Name:

Personal • Job:
information
sharing • Years of service:

• Special interest/hobbies:
PROPOSED GUIDELINES

1 No subjects are taboo

2 Rationally with dignity: Pascal X

3 Systematic & logic discussion

Parking Bay

4 Holistic perspective

5 Never to hurt, only to learn

6 Participate as equals: Workshop status depends on contribution

7 I shall always try to be completely objective

 Breaks and other
Smoking
Special needs
Start Time: 08:00
Tea time: 10:30
Lunch: 13:00
Teatime: 15:00
Finish: 16:00 (Small group 15:00)
Course content and Material
Expectations
 • Though leadership
• Leadership styles
Day 1 • Resilience
• Strategic assistance
• PA Post Pandemic
• Reactive to Proactive
Assistant
• Productivity in a World
of Distraction
• Whole Brain Thinking
• Change – Re-imagining
your Position Post
Covid 19
MODULE ONE:
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
The wise man and the dove

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Video
Leadership Styles Autocratic Democratic Laissez-Faire
Assessing
your
leadership
style
Resilience
reset
 Strategies for Building
Resilience at Work - 6 Simple
Video Steps to OVERCOME ANY
OBSTACLE
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What are the 7 resilience skills?
How
resilient
are
you?
How to
boost your
resilience
MODULE TWO:
STRATEGIC
ASSISTANT
Defining the strategic
function of today’s
PA Post Pandemic

• Recognize the symptoms

of stress you may be
experiencing.
• Feeling irritation, anger,
or in denial
• Feeling uncertain,
nervous, or anxious
• Lacking motivation
• Feeling tired,
overwhelmed, or burned
out
• Feeling sad or depressed
• Having trouble sleeping
• Having trouble
concentrating
 Post Covid
Opportuniites
How South African SMEs can survive
and thrive post COVID-19
 Proactive vs
Video Reactive | Be
Proactive
1. Smartphones
2. Emails
3. Background noise
4. People interruptions
5. Clutter
6. Multi-tasking
7. Co-workers
8. Micro-management
9. Hunger
10. Needlessly strict policies.
11. Meetings
12. Decision fatigue
 1. Stop 4. Leave your
3. Track your 5. Set
valuing the 2. Use Forest phone in
productivity boundaries
wrong things another room

6. Set a 7. Use 8.
9. Practice 10. Meditate
schedule OneTab Unsubscribe

14. Use voice

12. Reward 13. Use
11. Use labels search and 15. Be
yourself for background
in email related invisible
focus noise
commands
20. Consider
18. Adjust or
16. Simplify 17. Use 19. Know noise-
turn off
your tools Pocket thyself canceling
notifications
headphones

21. Pick the 22. Use one 23.

24. Schedule 25. Unplug
medium screen (not Consolidate
breaks completely
carefully two) your feeds
 How To 100x Your
Productivity In A
Video World Of Distraction |
Robin Sharma
How
Productive
are you?
Whole Brain Thinking Game

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Whole Brain
Thinking Video
 Take Advantage Increase Your
of the Dot- Focus by
Connecting Working Fewer
Powers of Your Hours
Whole Brain to Work
More Creatively
Brain
Thinking

Work with Strategically

Intention and Unfocus to Take
Discover your Better Mind
Most Important Wandering
Tasks Breaks
Module Four: Unplugged –
Reclaiming Balance in a
Connected World
12 Steps to Achieving better
work-life balance
2. Disengage from
1. Establish your 3. Develop healthy
toxic activities & 4. Learn to unplug.
priorities. habits.
people.

6. Set boundaries
7. Spend time with 8. Explore passions
between the
5. Get some rest. the people you outside of your
workplace & your
love. day job.
personal life.

10. Adopt a 11. Accept that 12. Delegate

9. Go on a real
flexible work there is no perfect secondary tasks to
vacation.
schedule. work-life balance. a virtual assistant.

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 How to Find
Yourself Again -
Best Motivational Video
Video 2020
Increase in remote working

Expanded data collection

Contingent worker expansion

Expanded employer role as social safety net

Separation of critical skills and roles

(De-) Humanization of employees

Emergence of new top-tier employers

Transition from designing for efficiency to designing for

resilience
Increase in organization complexity
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