The Assistant’s Guide to Onboarding Yourself

The Assistant’s Guide to Onboarding Yourself

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!!!

Five Stars

Tiffini J

I’m 100% going to rewatch this so I can relive that!

Five Stars

Megan B

Wow, Ebony! Thank you SO much!

Five Stars

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
Preboarding

How to start on the right foot BEFORE you start the job

Onboarding
Onboarding

Where you’ll put your focus and energy at during your first 30/60/90 days in your new role

Landing
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.

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Next Steps
Make It Official.

This course is available individually or through our on online training and community HQ Membership platform.

Inside The Officials HQ

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.

Inside the Onboarding course

Course Only

Only want the course? No problem! Selection one of the denominations below and you will be taken to the checkout page.

You still get all the incredible lectures and priceless resources to make your onboarding a success.

Digital Declutter

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
Digital Declutter for Executive Assistants

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

Your Instructor

Melissa Peoples

Melissa Peoples

CEO & Founder
Admin Gurus

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. 

EA to VA: The Essentials of Building a Virtual Assistant Business

EA to VA: The Essentials of Building a Virtual Assistant Business

Employee to entrepreneur, learn the essentials to building a successful VA business

Lauren Bradley
of The Officials

# Slack Channel: #course_vaessentials

Do you have what it takes to create your own VA startup?
Ready to go from EA to CEO?

Well now is the time, so consider building a Virtual Assistant business. In this course, we will give you a roadmap to take your experience of working with business leaders and use it to become one yourself.

Learn the ups and downs of starting your own business and how you can set yourself up for success.

This course is for you if you…

  • Want to determine if now is the time to start your own VA business
  • Think it’s time to stop working so hard for someone else and start working hard for yourself
  • Feel uncertain about your future and want to take matters into your own hands
  • Are a new VA who started their business by stumbling upon clients but now want to grow your business

What you will learn

  • What it truly means to be a business owner
  • Thinking like a business leader
  • Setting goals and milestones to success
  • Calculating your worth with competitive pricing
  • Determining your services and articulating your value
  • The pages you MUST have on your website
  • Defining the customer journey and sales funnel
  • Building your support team
  • Bonus: Utilizing Instagram for business promotion

Testimonials

Gave me the essentials and framework to start a VA business.

Umm Lauren you are AMAZINNNNGGGGGGGG!!! This course rocks!
❤️
You’re setting realistic expectations to your members and I appreciate it!

Your Instructor

Lauren Bradley

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.

Remote Assistant Success

Remote Assistant Success

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 List is 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

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.

Notion: Harnessing the Power of Knowledge

Notion: Harnessing the Power of Knowledge

with Laura Johnston
of The Assistant’s Handbook

# Slack Channel: #course_notion

About the course

Where are you filing your notes? Multiple notebooks? Onenote? Evernote? Does your company have a shared, collaborative repository for collective knowledge in the company? A Single Source of Truth otherwise known as a SSOT? No? Not sure. Let’s talk.

Notion allows you to create, collect and collaborate all in one single workspace. International EA and Notion whiz, Laura Johnston will walk you through this powerful tool and show you why it’s an assistant’s best friend.

This course is for you if you…

  • Want to tame your to do list
  • Love the art of note-taking and want to take it to the next step with a digital solution
  • Need one solution to write, plan, collaborate and organize your projects
  • Are tired of being asked for the same forms and documents over and over and need a wiki to streamline your workflows
  • Love staying on top of the latest tech

What you will learn

  • The basics of Notion including blocks, databases, toggles, callouts, nested columns, page creation and templates
  • Slash commands and basic formatting
  • Documenting workflows and transitioning to digital platforms
  • How to create a dynamic and easy to use wiki for more efficient workflows
  • Utilizing Notion for Task Management
  • Collaboration and permissions hierarchies
  • The basics of Scrum and Kanban
  • Pro tips such as global blocks, nested columns, customized icons, embedding, integration and more

Meet Your Instructor

Guest Instructor Laura Johnston

Laura Johnston

EA + Creator of
The Assistant’s Handbook

Laura is the force behind The Assistant’s Handbook and our first Official to instruct a course! We are all so proud. She is a Dubai-based EA focused on helping leadership teams succeed.

Before you begin

Before you begin you will need to get yourself a Notion account.

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