Personal Assistant Mentor / Coach

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Personal Assistant Mentor/Coach

A Personal Assistant mentor facilitates PA learning and development to maximize personal development. Essentially, anyone can be a mentor if they have the time, commitment and necessary skills. As a development tool, mentoring is invaluable, because mentors act as trusted and interested advisors.

In the role of Personal Assistant or secretary, there are many tasks that can benefit from guidance and advice. Personal Assistant mentoring is an excellent resource for those who would like to be more effective in their role as a Personal Assistant. The help and assistance offered through mentoring can provide the guidance mentees need to cope with their workload, achieve their goals, and bring about improvement in their personal lives.

Possible Uses

Here are some areas where mentoring is particularly useful:
- support in a new job
- induction
- redundancy support
- succession planning
- career progression

COACHING vs MENTORING

Coaching differs from mentoring in that it is more short term and is aimed at achieving specific goals. Coaching focuses on achieving goals and objectives - improvements in performance and productivity are the main goals.

Mentoring is defined by an informal relationship in which a senior person within the profession, or an experienced colleague passes on their knowledge and experience to assist, guide and develop a more junior mentee. The relationship between mentor and mentee represents a type of apprenticeship, where best practice and work-smart techniques can be explored. In contrast to a coach, a mentor has direct experience of the mentees occupational role.

Mentoring is long-term, tailored, supportive development that produces improvements for the mentee and their company. The desired outcome is to develop the mentee professionally. The relationship between mentor and mentee can last for a long time. Mentors takes a broader view of the mentee, focusing on both personal and career development.

Benefits to Mentee

- increased confidence
- improved productivity
- better focus on continued professional development
- improvements in know-how and technical skills
- behavioural improvements
- improved networking

Benefits to Organisation

- increased productivity
- better retention of mentored employees
- helps change management
- improved succession planning
- increased job satisfaction

In addition to helping change management, a personal assistant or secretarial mentor will help with stress management, as they introduce the mentee to problem solving techniques, and behavioural and attitudinal change.

Telephone and e-Mentoring

Weekly face-to-face meetings are ideal for building the mentor/mentee relationship, but face-to-face meetings are not always possible. Telephone mentoring and e-mentoring are viable alternative methods that work very well. Therefore, it's not necessary for the mentor and mentee to live in the same area, or even the same country. Mentees may find that email connections are preferable to face-to-face communication, which can take time out of their busy schedule. e-Mentoring can achieve the same nurturing, trusting relationship as face-to-face mentoring.

Consider engaging a PA mentor/coach if you are:

- hoping to maximise your next performance appraisal score;
- wanting to improve your level of confidence;
- new to the PA role;
- recently promoted to a senior PA role; or
- trying to improve your general effectiveness.

Personal Assistant mentoring provides guidance, moral support, encouragement and a confidential environment where issues and constructive criticism can be explored, along with ideas for improviding career visibility.

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WE OFFER PERSONAL ASSISTANT eCOACHING & eMENTORING SERVICES

We offer PA coaching and mentoring services. There are many reasons why a PA would opt for PA mentoring. If you are new to the PA profession, or have been recently promoted to work for Directors, you will benefit from the guiding hand of a PA mentor. There's no such thing as too much information; every PA develops there own systems and approach to tasks, but two heads are better than one, so I'm happy to coach you and give you the benefit of my experience.

Your Coach and mentor will be Marguerita King, owner of this website and former Senior Personal Assistant. Marguerita has a BSc (Hons) in Psychology, A diploma in Personal Assistance, and is a Fellow of the Association of Personal Assistants (APA). Contact Us using our contact form or call us on +44 (0)7771 648521.

Mentor/coaching Fees:

2 Emails / wk UKP 35.00
1 Call & 1 Email / wk UKP 45.00
5 Calls & 4 Emails / mth UKP 180.00

Contact us to discuss other methods of payment

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