Accelerate your success by taking control of your onboarding
The Assistant’s Guide to Onboarding Yourself
Accelerate your success by taking control of your onboarding
About the course
This course is an advanced knowledge program that will help you develop the essential skills and best practices you need to proactively manage your own onboarding.
In this breakthrough program, instructor Ebony Belhumeur will be sharing her FIVE secrets to staying onboard and setting yourself up for success across the long term.
Whether you’re just starting out as an admin or are a seasoned Executive Assistant who hasn’t quite mastered the art of onboarding yourself effectively we’ve got you covered.
Learn the essential components for building trust, connecting with your lead + team and becoming a valued member of the organization.
Testimonials
THIS WAS AMAZING!!! Thank you, Ebony!!!
Tiffini J
I’m 100% going to rewatch this so I can relive that!
Megan B
Wow, Ebony! Thank you SO much!
Irene T
Check out the Welcome Module
After this course, you’ll be able to
Manage expectations before you even start to establish your authority, autonomy and rules of engagement
Identify the importance of onboarding yourself
Expertly collect the data needed to do your job more efficiently and successfully
Prompt a healthy feedback cycle that is specific, timely and effective
The Modules
Preboarding
How to start on the right foot BEFORE you start the job
Onboarding
Where you’ll put your focus and energy at during your first 30/60/90 days in your new role
Landing
How to maintain altitude and with a goal of climbing higher over time.
Plus, powerful bonus content
Key Artifacts + Bonus Module
The essential documents and resources that augment this knowledge program.
Meet the instructor
Ebony Belhumeur
Curator + Blogger, The Assistant’s List
Ebony is the curator and blogger behind The Assistant’s List. Past lives include EA to the CEO of Sephora and the EA to the CEO at Twitch. Currently, she lives in Tours, France while working for a fully remote company in Silicon Valley.
Next Steps Make It Official.
This course is available individually or through our on online training and community HQ Membership platform.
HQ Membership
Want this course PLUS instant access to ALL of our courses? Then it’s our affordable HQ membership you want. Inside you’ll find courses for assistants by assistants packed with video tutorials, workbooks, templates and downloadables.
Included in your affordable membership you will be granted access to our global online community of supportive and talented assistants.
Oh and don’t forget that all of our popular events that are completely free to HQ Members.
Digital Declutter: Creating systems to keep you on top of your game
Create an organized and pleasant digital workspace that saves you time, improve productivity and keeps you up-to-date
MELISSA PEOPLES ADMIN GURUS
Employees waste nearly 2 hours every week “finding, sharing and storing documents.”1 Ain’t nobody got time for that!
Our goal with this course is to help you find sanity in your digital workspace. We will help you get your digital workspace organized so you can save time, mental energy, and work in a pleasant digital environment.
We hope to empower you also create processes and protocols to handle future documents and files.
We are joined by Melissa Peoples who has teamed up with Lauren to show you how easy it can be audit and analyze your digital workspace in order to create systems that create an easier flow of information that saves you time.
No more overflowing inboxes. No more FOLDERS OF DOOM sitting on your digital desktop. It’s time to take back control!
This course is for you if you…
Struggle to keep up with your inbox(es)
Are looking for best practices to organize your digital files and folders
Have inherited numerous documents, files, and emails that need dealing with but you aren’t sure where to start
Are you afraid to delete anything and now it’s causing anxiety
This course is designed for administrative professionals including office managers, administrative assistants, personal assistants, executive assistants, chiefs of staff and more
What you will learn
How to successfully audit and analyze your current problem areas
The Ten Commandments to help you know how to avoid the digital clutter deadly sins
Tools and tips to assist you with purging the correct documents and files
To create processes and protocols to create a clear path and way to deal with future documents and files before the clutter builds again
Learn some fun ways to make your digital workspace beautiful, clean and a pleasant place to work to improve your productivity and energy levels
Melissa Peoples is a career EA and founder of Admin Gurus, a YouTube channel dedicated to helping Administrative Professionals crush it in their careers. She is also an Executive Assistant coach and productivity consultant who assists executive teams to become more effective.
Melissa is a Certified Microsoft Trainer and serves as the Executive Operations Advisor to the CEO of the New York Times. Basically, she likes to geek out on streamlining operations, increasing personal and team productivity strategies, and anything Microsoft.
Successfully manage projects while being innovative, responsive and in control
LAUREN BRADLEY FOUNDER OF THE OFFICIALS
“Your brain is a crappy office. It’s meant to have ideas, not hold them.” David Allen, author of Getting Things Done
Administrative professionals are constantly working from their ever-changing to do lists. Over time the lists get longer and longer and yet working hours don’t change. Oh and if you are an executive assistant you are probably tracking your executive’s tasks, too. Oh… and the tasks of everyone from that meeting you took minutes for and were asked explicitly to make sure “everyone does what they promised in that meeting.”
Noooooow… add complexity such as managing a project like an offsite event, policy review, or office move and it’s no surprise that you can’t easily prioritize your to do list.
What if I told you there was a better way? A roadmap to better move your tasks along? That’s an example of what Agile does. Combine it with project management skills and you will be able to get your task under control, reprioritize in minutes instead of hours, and manage projects successfully.
This course is for you if you…
Want a better way to track your overflowing to do list
Would like to enhance your skills by learning the principles of project management
Are interested in learning more about Scrum and Kanban
Want to embrace tech to help you digitally track and implement your special projects
This course is designed for administrative professionals including office managers, administrative assistants, personal assistants, executive assistants, chiefs of staff and more
What you will learn
The origin story of Agile
The difference between Scrum and Kanban
How to properly scope a project
How to properly run a daily stand-up and the important questions to ask to keep the work aligned with the goals
Tools to measure the success of your project
The importance of a productive retrospective
How combining Agile methodologies with basic project management skills can make you an expert PM
How to gain control of your daily to do list
Ways to track more complex projects through technology to help eliminate redundant meetings, improve clarity and keep to timelines
Your Instructor
Lauren Bradley
Founder The Officials
Lauren has held every admin and assistant title under the sun including Office Manager, Virtual Assistant, EA to the CEO and private PA to HNWIs. She is a former OfficeNinjas All-Star winner and founder of The Officials. She is passionate about empowering admins and assistants.
Want to impress your team with gorgeous presentations? Grab their attention with impactful signage? Wow them with beautifully designed reports? Show off your impressive social media posts with ease? Look no further than Canva.
In this course, our founder Lauren Bradley will walk you through one of her favorite applications of all time. Learn not just how to use it but how to use it as an administrative professional.
Please note in this course we will be utilizing Canva Pro edition.
This course is for you if you…
Would like tips and tricks from a former designer who happily hung up the Adobe Suite for faster, easier design (psst we still love designers and Adobe)
Desire to improve your overall skills as an administrative professional by making reports, documents, invites and more that look professional and expensive to design
Want to learn something new that you will absolutely love and will make your life easier as an assistants
Are looking to embrace intuitive tech in your life
What you will learn
The core foundations of Canva
Principles of design
How to build a brand kit
The versatility of elements
Final design formats to wow your audience
Creating jaw-dropping presentations that impress
Easy video design
Embedding powerful integrations to your designs
How to create trending social media designs
Sign-up to Canva
Before you get started you need a Canva account. You can sign-up for a free account but in this course. we will be utilizing the Pro Edition.
Lauren has held every admin and assistant title under the sun including Office Manager, Virtual Assistant, EA to the CEO and private PA to HNWIs. She is a former OfficeNinjas All-Star winner and founder of The Officials. She is passionate about empowering admins and assistants.
Learn the power of leadership through self-regard and empathy
Lauren Bradley Founder of The Officials
Emotional Intelligence is reported as one of the top five most desired soft skills by employers1. Assistants are ahead of the game here, while companies are scrambling to find talent with generalist skills and high EQ (emotional intelligence) they could simply look within their own administrative teams for heaps of high EQ performers.
This course is for you if you…
Are looking to advance yourself through one of the most in-demand soft skills
Are interested in the psychology of the workplace
Want to improve your influence through interpersonal relationship
Looking to incorporate more of your own self-regard into your working life
What you will learn
The Emotional Intelligence Model and Competencies
Cultivating your own EQ
Understanding self-regard in the process
The importance of Work Psychology
How to effectively influence organizational culture
The power of connecting and collaborating with others
The art of negotiation in the role of an assistant
What members have to say
Your Instructor
Lauren Bradley
Founder The Officials
Lauren has held every admin and assistant title under the sun including Office Manager, Virtual Assistant, EA to the CEO and private PA to HNWIs. She is a former OfficeNinjas All-Star winner and founder of The Officials. She is passionate about empowering admins and assistants.
Raise your hand if you’ve ever been so overwhelmed you make simple mistakes? Find yourself forgetting tasks? Spend far too long writing a new To Do List every day only to find you were lucky you crossed one item off the list?
How would it feel to finally have a handle on your day? To not fear you forgot something or stress at night about the work you have waiting for you in the morning?
Fear no more! In this course, Annie Croner of Whole Assistant will show you how to process overwhelm and build simple and repeatable systems that mitigate the risk of mistakes and provide you peace of mind.
This course is for you if you…
Have ever felt you are drowning in an avalanche of tasks and you just can’t keep your head above it all
Have moments of overwhelm that leave you feeling defeated day after day
Fell like you spend more time reorganizing your to do list than actually doing it
Struggle with systemization and process building
Are a new administrative professional trying to keep a handle on your to do list
What you will learn
How to define overwhelm and how emotions hold space in our lives
Performing Thought Downloads for clarity and control
How to reframe your thoughts to align with your intentions
The benefits of a digital task tracking system
The appropriate questions for task prioritization
Brainstorming structure for systemization
Testimonials
Annie has motivated me to listen to that voice in the back of my head (that won’t hush) and to get started on reviewing my tasks to see what needs to be revamped, needs to go, or needs to be delegated. Though I use my “taskbar” for everything (well, I do use some paper) on Outlook, I will be taking the Trello course next, thanks to Annie. It’s been on my “to do” list forever!
Excellent course of mindset and strategy. Very well laid out by Annie who is an excellent trainer. Very well-spoken and I absolutely loved her summaries at the end of each lesson. This is so helpful. The course is fantastic, and there are definitely golden nuggets of wisdom for each viewer. Grateful for the workbook, and very excited about the coaching opportunity. How very generous! Thank you, Annie! And thank you Lauren for publishing this course!
Annie Croner is a career EA and founder of Whole Assistant, an online platform & community formed to provide a positive place where assistants can go to transform their lives and up-level their careers.
Over her 18 years as an assistant, Annie has worked for boutique companies across multiple industries including accounting, marketing, nonprofit, and private wealth management.
Land your dream job through intentional and strategic planning
Henrietta Barker Recruiter and Podcast Host
One of the worse experiences in one’s career is that period between you realizing you absolutely cannot stand working where you are anymore and actually finding a new job.
It can be excruciating especially if you know you should have started your search ages ago…like ages and ages ago but it was just easier not to do it.
Imagine designing your own career roadmap. Defining the milestones you need to reach to make that dream come true. Cultivating relationships that will actively be helping you reach your dreams. Never feeling that depressing limbo again between wanting to quit and actually getting to do so. In this course, Henrietta Barker, successful recruiter and podcast host, shows you how to chart the course of your career. She’ll show the questions you need to ask of yourself to help uncover what you want and how to define the steps to get you there.
This course is for you if you…
Want to take control of your career growth
Are looking for your next amazing role
Would like to know what hiring managers and recruiters look for in a candidate
Need resources to help you design your career roadmap
Want to learn from an industry expert
What you will learn
Performing a current career audit
Storytelling to sell your talents and desirability as a candidate
What recruiters and hiring managers look for in candidates
How to reverse engineer the career you want
Building a roadmap for your career
How to nurture relationships that can help you reach your career goals
Executing a year end review and setting goals to propel you towards your goals
Henrietta Barker is the Founder of Henrietta Barker Ltd, assistant and support staff talent. Host of the Assistants Together podcast and The Work Edition. podcast.
Encouraging positive collaboration, learning and encouragement within the international support team community.
Building a Strong Relationship with your Principal
Achieve true collaboration through mutual respect and vision
Ursula Kohler Founder and Managing Director at Capital EA
You could be the most talented and committed assistant in the world but still be left feeling impotent and unfulfilled in your role due to a lack of connection with the principal (aka executive, manager).
Imagine building a solid foundation of respect, trust and affinity with them. How would it feel to know that your principal not only cares about your opinion but trusts you with key decision making? Without this, no role can truly be 100% fulfilling. So how do you build that strong relationship?
We collaborated with Ursula Kohler of Capital EA to bring you this course that will walk you through the steps of forging a healthy and respectful relationship with your principal. Ursula’s impressive experience gives her a unique vantage point of what it is like to be the assistant and the business leader, as the founder of Capital EA.
This course is for you if you…
Have struggled to capture high trust, regard and connection with your principal
Are ready to make the step up to a senior assistant position and need to know which skills to hone
Want to know the unique pressures, needs and requirements of today’s business leaders
Are looking for ways to improve your emotional intelligence to be the support your principal truly needs through a mutually beneficial partnership
The Results
Gain clarity with your principal to avoid ambiguity
Align your responsibilities to the goals and targets of the principal and company in order to articulate your value to the growth of the company
Recognize and cultivate your own Intellectual Property
Interview and research the principal to build a better understanding of their footprint
Future planning for success through time management, focus and support
Understand how to create and value your personal goals and how they contribute to your success as a senior level assistant
Your Instructor
Testimonials
<!–td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}–> I have new found confidence in what I do and how to really connect with my principal – it’s so much more about the past in order to understand the future!
Magnificent Official
I found this course incredibly insightful. I have worked with my current exec for just under a year but am constantly looking for new ways to improve our relationship, especially whilst we work from home. I have so many new ideas now!
Fabulous Official
For me, this was a great course of reminders of how to continue to build a relationship with my Executive, with several “lightbulb” moments. I loved those. One was I am a “consultant” or an “advisor”. I need to really think of myself this was. I need to think more like an entrepreneur – a word I would never use to describe myself, until now (yet still with a bit of Imposter Syndrome). Another was simply asking myself “what does a successful year look like?” That’s excellent, big picture, strategic thinking. I get so consumed with details and tasks, that I do not take the time to think strategically. This course certainly emphasizes that. Ursula is so warm and inviting as a facilitator. I loved the webinar that was included. Great job Ursula! And, thank you for the quote of “Rule your mind, or it will rule you.” This is so very true!
With over 25 years’ experience as an EA/PA, Ursula has worked with and supported some of Australia’s most recognised and rewarded individuals. She founded Capital EA in 2014, a company that flies the banner for all EAs and is one of its kind in Australia. Ursula has a Diploma of Business Management, was one of five finalists in the 2019 Canberra Women in Business – Business Woman of the Year category. She has lived on the Sunshine Coast and prefers Canberra, is married with one daughter, two mini dachshunds and a British short-haired cat!
She is an incredible advocate for admins and assistants around the world and we are proud to call her an Official as well.
An event can be a powerful tool to bring people together. Being tasked with planning, implementing and managing a company event is a big responsibility.
Officials know this all too well. Admins and assistants are often tasked with planning various types of events. It could be a large annual general meeting, an internal conference, a social event, holiday party or a client event… and now we have to figure out how to do it all virtually!
On top of all of our other responsibilities, event planning and management can be daunting.
That’s why we have roped in the magnificent Lisa Boissel of Miss Jones PA to give us a crash course in event planning basics. Lisa is a pro under pressure and thrives on running the show. She walks you through planning and managing a successful event step by step and has gifted you with the same templates she uses for friction-free events.
This course is for you if you…
Have been tasked with hosting an event and
Want to know what it takes to design and manage a successful event
Love event planning and want access to expert tips
Need to transition live events to virtual events
Are looking to expand your skillset to be a more desirable candidate
What you will learn
Powerful scoping questions that will kill ambiguity so your events run smoothly from Day 1
Mastery of planning and implementation templates from events experts
Determining what success looks like for your event
Tools to transition events from in-person to virtual
Design tips and tricks for marketing your events
Budgeting with a buffer and what to do when budget has not yet been clarified
Seamless event planning through task management and timeline creation
Properly analyzing your success post-event and documenting lessons learned correctly
Lisa Boissel is the Managing Director of Miss Jones PA, a global leading assistant and event planner network. She has been an event planner for over 14 years and is an expert at crafting luxury experiences.
Learn how to communicate, act and lead in a high-trust remote environment
with Ebony Belhumeur of The Assistant’s List
About the Course
Remote working has never been more necessary than it is right now. And while remote working has its benefits it also has some unique challenges. Current predictions are that at least 30% of the global workforce will continue to work from home at least one day a week.
It’s time to embrace your future and get the skills you need to become a successful remote assistant.
This course is our first official collab at The Officials and we couldn’t have teamed up with a better person. Ebony Belhumeur of The Assistant’s Listis the ultimate remote assistant.
This course is for you if you…
Or anyone at your company needs to master remote working techniques
Want to learn productivity tips from a pro
Work for a fully remote company
Help your company during times where remote working is necessary
This course is designed for administrative professionals including office manager, administrative assistants, personal assistants, executive assistants, chiefs of staff and more
What you will learn
To remain visible and relevant when not physically present
To develop a mindset for success
Must know tech that increases remote working productivity
How to develop your ideal remote working routine
How to be an ideal remote candidate
How to successfully support your team and executive from afar
Meet Your Instructor
Ebony Belhumeur
The Assistant’s List
Ebony is the curator and blogger behind The Assistants List. Past lives include EA to the CEO of Sephora and the EA to the CEO at Twitch. Currently, she lives in Tours, France while working for a fully remote company in Silicon Valley.
