DAY 1 - Managing the Workload/ Managing Pressure and Stress
- Introduction and the coordinator’s role
- Streamlining systems and cutting out unnecessary work
- Making the best use of resources
- Planning and priority setting
- Managing requests and conflicting priorities
- Helping others manage their time
- Understanding work-based stress and pressure
- ‘Stress-busting’ strategies
DAY 2 - Managing Working Relationships and Effective Communication
- Networking and influencing skills – getting co-operation from others
- Managing relationships with the boss
- Taking a briefing and briefing others (task delegation and co-ordination)
- Principles of effective communication
- Getting the best out of e-mail communication
- Assertiveness
- Dealing with conflict and difficult relationships
DAY 3 - Organizing Effective Meetings / Managing & Presenting Information
- What makes an effective meeting?
- Developing agendas
- Co-coordinating participants’ availability and providing advanced information
- Organizing venues – location, layout, equipment and catering
- Organizing remote meetings (e.g. teleconferencing)
- Making notes and drafting minutes
- Meeting support - designing effective and attractive PowerPoint slides
- Principles of information management
- Digesting data and making it meaningful
- Presenting graphs and tables
- Principles of report writing – editing and enhancing others’ reports
DAY 4 - Managing & Monitoring Budgets and Projects / Getting the Best from Office Technology
- What goes wrong with projects?
- CPA and principles of project planning/scheduling
- Using project planning software
- Budget management – allocating expenditure to budget headings
- Monitoring actual expenditure against budget – variance analysis
- Managing the office environment
- Getting the best from office technology
- Developing paperless systems
- Developing and using relational data-bases
DAY 5 - Developing Your Own Performance/ Getting the Best from Your Appraisal
- Taking a proactive approach to problem solving and continuous improvement
- Identifying blockages to enhanced performance
- Identifying skills and knowledge needs and how to meet them
- Taking an active part in your own appraisal and getting the support you need
- Programme summary and action planning