Management assistant: Training, overview of schools and offers
A management assistant (certified executive assistant with a federal certificate) supports managers in their role, takes on their own areas of responsibility and sometimes leads their own teams. Executive assistants actively contribute to the smooth running of operational processes and act as an important hub between managers, employees, external service providers and customers. As such, they make a significant contribution to the sustainable success of companies after completing the professional examination. The generalist management assistant course is aimed at specialists from the commercial sector and leads to the professional examination in management assistance. The management assistant training course can be completed over one to two years while working. The field of work with a federal certificate is very diverse and varies depending on the size, orientation and sector of the company.
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With the management assistant training course, you can obtain a specialist certificate as a management assistant in order to take on a central role in a company in the area of management assistance with a hub function.
As a management assistant (also executive assistant), you are responsible for the smooth running of operational processes and specifically promote communication between the individual teams, departments and various user groups. Office organization, processes and time management are not major challenges for executive assistants. Targeted working techniques, digital working, tools and project management can be used depending on the situation and lead to the best management results.
The management assistant further training course for management assistants with a federal certificate covers the following topics in preparation for the professional examination:
- Marketing
- Business administration
- Law
- National economy
- Accounting
- Process management
- Project management
- Personnel management
- Leadership
- Communication
- Computer science
- Business English
- Networking module Organization
As a management assistant with a specialist certificate in management assistance, you can perform the following tasks:
- Support managers in their management activities and in the handling of day-to-day business (preparation of personnel and management transactions)
- Organize and manage occasions, events, appointments, business trips, training courses, workshops and meetings
- Processing correspondence from managers (obtaining data, information and facts)
- Responsible for the creation of texts and publications (print/digital)
- Project management and possibly team management (if necessary in cooperation with HR) in your own area
- Responsible for evaluations or implementations of new technologies
- Maintaining contacts with various stakeholder groups
- Supporting employees in the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) with first-level support
- cooperate with internal or external specialists or service providers, including coordination, organization and clarification tasks
- act professionally as representatives of their company
Management assistants who make conscious use of available resources and have good self-organization skills can perform an important function in the management sector. To act as a direct link between management and executives, you need effective working methods, techniques and tools as well as an agile approach to change processes. A management assistant must have good communication skills (including English or a second official language). Contact the school of your choice from our list now to find out more about management assistant training.
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