Professional Executive PA Diploma - Accelerated Learning

If you’re looking to advance your career towards a Senior Personal Assistant or Executive Assistant role, this is a great programme to launch your career.

Having a skillset that includes financial understanding and knowledge is essential if you want to fully support senior team members and upper management.

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.

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 right-hand 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.

Programme Content

Our Professional Executive PA Diploma programme provides students with a comprehensive range of secretarial, office IT, personal effectiveness, media and marketing, and business skills.

Secretarial Skills

Typaz Professional: Build typing speeds of 60 words per minute. You’ll also receive guidance on ergonomics, technique and accuracy.

Audio Transcription: This course will help you learn how to operate audio transcribing equipment and become proficient in document transcription.

Successful Meetings and Minutes: Taking clear and accurate minutes is a core task for any office admin, secretarial or PA job. This course will teach you all of the skills and techniques you need to take the stress out of minute taking.

Speedwriting: Our Speedwriting course is a new way to learn the Baker Write Speedwriting system which will help you accurately record the spoken work to speeds over 40 words per minute.

Diary Management: Learn how to manage competing demands on your executives time and availability with this practical introduction to diary management.

Business Travel: Gain a detailed understanding of travel and visa requirements that impact the practicalities of business travel, learn how to plan resilient itineraries and manage alterations to travel arrangements whilst your principal is working overseas.

Office IT Skills

PC Essentials: The course covers operating a computer, the hardware and software components necessary for PC use, application software, and file management.

Word: 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.

Word Expert: This training 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.

Excel: Microsoft Excel is the world’s most popular spreadsheet program. This course is suitable for beginner to intermediate level. Over ten 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.

Excel Expert: Our Excel Expert course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to use this popular spreadsheet programme to an advanced level. Over 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.

PowerPoint: Our PowerPoint training course will help you get to grips with this comprehensive presentation software.

Outlook: This 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.

SharePoint: This Pitman Training workshop is designed to help users start to work with Microsoft SharePoint as a powerful collaboration and file management tool.

Microsoft Teams: Learn how to use Teams to communicate and collaborative effectively with colleagues working remotely across multiple locations and projects.

Personal Effectiveness

Effective Business Communication: This excellent course will raise your game when it comes to business communication skills, which are often top of the list of qualities demanded by employers.

Communications in an Organisation: This course will teach you how to communicate effectively and with confidence. You will learn how to make an impact with non-verbal communication, about team collaboration, and about the importance of communicating with a virtual team.

Leadership Skills: If you are new to management, looking for promotion, or simply want to broaden your opportunities, this course will give you key insights into successful leadership and how to influence through positive leadership, developing emotional intelligence, leading through inspiration, and much more.

Time Management: 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.

Marketing & Media

Marketing Essentials: 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, PR, and the four Ps of marketing products.

Event Management Essentials: 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

Social Media Strategy for Business: Social media is a crucial business tool and powerful method of communication. This course will help you formulate the right strategy for your business to effectively market to your target audience.

LinkedIn for Business: This course is designed to bring you up to speed with using LinkedIn in a business environment. It guides you through how to get the most out of the platform, helping you to capitalise on the millions of contacts within arm’s reach.

Facebook for Business: Learn how to use Facebook to help promote and market your company. Examining how businesses can maximise their social media presence, we look at the whole spectrum of opportunities that this social media platform offers a business.

Twitter for Business: This course takes you through the basics of how to get started on this popular social media platform, enabling you to use it effectively.

Business Skills

HR Essentials: HR Essentials is an entry-level HR training course. You’ll learn essential knowledge in areas, such as recruiting new staff, employment contracts, salary processing and maternity rights.

Project+: Learn how to manage a variety of project types with varying degrees of complexity. Project+ offers a rich training experience as it covers essential project management concepts beyond the scope of a single methodology or framework. Learn about project planning documents, resource and
risk planning, controlling the project schedule, and more.

Understanding Business Accounts: For a business, nothing is more important than its finances. This course will provide you with a good understanding of business accounts – essential knowledge if you run a small business.

Introduction to Business Structure and Law: 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.

Career Development

Developing Your Personal Brand: Learn how to project the best version of you to engage with potential employers.

Networking: Create the professional networks that will open doors and support your career success.

How to write a winning CV: Create a compelling introduction to your skills and experiences that succeeds in securing job interviews.

Successful Job Search Strategies: Unlock the hidden jobs market to gain access to the 70% of vacancies that are never advertised.

Successful Interview Strategies: How to present yourself effectively in-person across a range of technologies and interview styles.

Successful Workplace Behaviours: Develop the tools and techniques that will help you perform and get ahead in work to secure the career you deserve.

Introduction to Working in Finance / Media / Fashion / Sport / Technology
Gain an insight into the specific requirements for support roles in your chosen sector.

This programme is designed for recent graduates, school or college leavers looking to launch their career as a PA or Executive Assistant.

Mid career students who are switching career paths and able to study on a full-time basis will also find this programme offers an effective way to achieve their goals.

We’re more interested in your potential than your past.

All activities are taken in English so students will need sufficient language skills to participate in the learning activities and produce work to the required standard.

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.