Profile of EOA's Five Introductory Lectures
5 lectures (2 by guest speakers, 3 by Executive Office Academy founders) introduce the Executive Office concept and clarify the difference between Personal Assistant and Executive Office Partners.
A. Introduction to the importance of the Executive Office
(40 min. Q&A included)
Why the daily agenda of a top executive in charge of a functional department has become a key management issue in recent years. Why executive authority is increasingly resulting from proven skills and measurable performance, rather than from titles and diplomas.
Why the revolutionary emergence of win-win cultures of management, often quoted by media and sociologists as a promotion of feminine values in the workplace, is changing the daily relations between employers and employees.
Why the need for modern top executives to travel during a significant percentage of their professional time in order to observe social, political, commercial, financial and technical opportunities in remote countries, and to manage local human resources in a global way, is often generating an “empty chair” syndrome back home.
How the three EOA founders, through different careers and life experiences, have witnessed and analysed the emergence of a totally new work environment in each of the usual functional domains of organizations.
Why the Executive Office concept, based on a genuine partnership between a top executive and an EOP or a team of PAs, has come to a level of maturity, which justifies the development, and globalization of adequate training and coaching instruments.
B. PA vs. EOP
(20 min. Q&A included)
Why the emergence of the EOP tenure is becoming synonymous of the win-win culture and the new demands by investors and other stakeholders for higher performance and more accountable functional domains, in particular in organizations dealing with global markets and a wide variety of business cultures.
Why an EOP is not merely a “super-PA”, but rather the closest daily “partner” of a top executive, empowered with a totally new set of responsibilities, in particular when the Boss is on the move.
C. Introduction to the EOA catalogue of lectures, courses and seminars
(20 min. Q&A included)
Why the EOA offers an integrated set of courses for PAs, and seminars for EOPs and top executives.
Why PA attendees are treated by EOA trainers and facilitators as future EOPs.
Why the “duo seminar” is aimed at bringing together EOPs and their Bosses in an open-minded, informal learning and brainstorming environment.
D. Testimony: “How I moved from PA to EOP status”
(30 min. Q&A included)
Candid sharing of the personal experience of a highly qualified PA who managed to acquire EOP status in a global business environment which, in her organization, came in sharp contrast with the traditional relationships between top executives and their supporting staff.
E. Testimony: “My EOP experience in various Executive Offices”
(40 min. Q&A included)
Disclosure by a top executive who, during 18 years of her career, was the one and only EOP of a Boss who operated on all continents and moved from top executive responsibilities in a prestigious legal firm to such positions as Minister of Economy & Finance.
