Professional Office and Records Management Course

Date Format Fees  
08 Jul - 12 Jul, 2024 Classroom $6,000 Register
25 Nov - 29 Nov, 2024 Classroom $6,000 Register
08 Jul - 12 Jul, 2024 Classroom $6,000 Register

Event Details

This professional office and records management course is designed to provide participants with the opportunity to review and develop interpersonal and professional skills needed to do their jobs effectively, thereby contributing to personal and organizational success.

 

CONTENT

Team Working, Communication and Meetings Team working and team roles

  • Briefing skills – giving, receiving and passing on
  • Organising, and participating in, meetings
  • Notes, minutes and follow-up

 

Managing Working Relationships /Communication Skills/Supervising Admin Staff

  • Delegation – giving and receiving
  • Coaching and training colleagues and staff – skills of on-job training
  • Communication and listening skills
  • Building rapport
  • Developing a network of working relationships – influencing skills
  • Assertiveness and conflict
  • People problems and problem people
  • Helping others perform – case study
  • Practical motivation
  • Criticism skills

 

Managing Time and Office Technology

  • Planning and priority setting
  • Office layout and ergonomics
  • Managing the paper-load and developing paperless systems
  • Getting the best from office technology
  • Letter writing
  • E-mail efficiency and etiquette
  • Writing and editing reports
  • Proof-reading skills
  • Setting up/developing writing layout and style guidelines for the organisation
  • Writing and designing presentation slides

 

Information Management, Budgets and Customer Service

  • Principles of information management – scheduling, filtering and digesting
  • Interpreting and presenting statistical information
  • Designing and using graphs
  • Designing surveys, presenting findings and interpreting meaning
  • Basic concepts of financial management
  • Monitoring budgets and variance
  • Improving customer service and systems – continuous improvement
  • Action planning

 

Concepts and Set-up Components

  • Document and records lifecycle
  • Capture and storage management
  • Storage and handling
  • Preservation and archiving
  • Metadata and indexing
  • Classification schemes
  • Searching and retrieving
  • Controls and security
  • Legislation, standards and regulation

 

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.

 

This course is available in the following locations:

Nigeria - $5000
Rwanda - $7000
UK - $8000
USA - $8000

  • Venue

    SunLodge Hotel, Saxel Estate, 76 Fourth Road, Tesano – Accra, Ghana.

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