The GF assistance
The practical seminar for experienced assistants
Contents
Professional management assistance: six keys to success
- Future prospects for assistance.
- Self-image and objectives in assistance: Clarify your role - are the framework conditions right?
- This will bring clarity to your tasks and competencies.
- Your action framework for proactive task management.
Sovereign assistance to superiors
- Compatibility and congruence in cooperation.
- Difference between executive relief and management assistance.
- The management tasks of your superiors and your contribution to success.
- Delegation of tasks without authority to issue instructions.
- Self-management skills - the most important tools for your practice.
Management techniques and management tools
- The management control loop for managers and management assistants.
- Leadership styles - an overview.
- Leading "from the bottom up".
- Practical transfer: Management control loop for your personal problem.
Take the lead with these communication tools
- In this way, you surf the relationship level and assert your demands competently.
- Dealing with status games.
- Using language and body language professionally.
- Appear calm and authentic.
- Practical transfer: Difficult conversation situations from your practice.
Regenerative skills in hectic times
- This is how you prevent them in the long term.
- Your first aid kit for stress alarms.
Learning environment
In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.
Your benefit
- This training shows how the role of management assistant can be further developed and how professionalism and competence can be increased.
- Knowledge is brought up to date.
- New impulses for "entrepreneurial" and independent supervisor assistance are conveyed.
- Performance skills and assertiveness are strengthened.
- It is shown how one's own experience can continue to be brought into the company.
As transfer support after the training , there is the option of using a one-hour telephone coaching session with the trainer. This coaching is included in the seminar price.
Methods
Short presentations, individual, pair and group exercises, discussion, exchange of best practice.
Recommended for
Executive assistants of entrepreneurs, managing directors and senior executives who would like to gain further qualifications.
Please note:
- Several years of professional experience as an assistant/secretary is recommended.
- This training is not suitable for newcomers in the field of assistance/secretarial work! For them, we recommend "The junior assistant on the executive floor" (6083), "Professional assistance for lateral and re-entrants" (8761) and "Modern office management" (8167).
- General secretarial skills and digital tools are not included in the seminar content.
Further recommendations for "The GF-Assistance"
8738
Start dates and details
Monday, 02.03.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, 03.03.2026
09:00 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 23.04.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Friday, 24.04.2026
09:00 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 07.05.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Friday, 08.05.2026
09:00 am - 4:30 pm
Monday, 22.06.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, 23.06.2026
09:00 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Tuesday, 21.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Wednesday, 22.07.2026
09:00 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 07.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, 08.09.2026
09:00 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 14.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, 15.09.2026
09:00 am - 4:30 pm
Monday, 26.10.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, 27.10.2026
09:00 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Tuesday, 24.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Wednesday, 25.11.2026
09:00 am - 4:30 pm
Thursday, 10.12.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Friday, 11.12.2026
09:00 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 22.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, 23.02.2027
09:00 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Wednesday, 03.03.2027
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Thursday, 04.03.2027
09:00 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
FAQ
Many executive assistants take on far more than traditional assistant tasks without their role being clearly defined or delineated. In executive assistance in particular, this lack of clarity often leads to misunderstandings and inefficient collaboration. In this seminar, you will take a close look at your understanding of your role as an executive assistant, reflect on expectations, and learn how to clearly define and actively shape your position the management level.
Effective management assistants think proactively, prioritize, and act with foresight. Many management assistants want to provide more support, but don't know exactly how to make this added value visible. The training precisely this challenge and shows you how to identify management tasks, understand contexts, and position yourself as a strategic support to management.
The daily work routine of an executive assistant is characterized by dynamism, time pressure, and short-term decisions. Without a clear structure, overload can quickly arise. This training you tried-and-tested methods for self-management and prioritization, which you can use to structure your daily work routine, maintain an overview, and remain capable of acting even in stressful phases as an executive assistant.
Delegating without formal leadership is one of the biggest challenges in executive assistance. Often, there is a lack of commitment, even though responsibility is to be handed over. In training , you training how to delegate successfully in executive assistance even without authority, how to communicate clearly, demand responsibility, and strengthen your assertiveness professionally.
The impact of executive assistance plays a central role in acceptance, trust, and cooperation at the management level. In training , you training your behavior as an executive assistant, examine status dynamics, and learn to consciously demonstrate your professionalism. This will strengthen your presence, ensure you are perceived as a competent and reliable contact person, and consolidate your role in the management environment.
