• The Tech-Savvy Assistants' Bootcamp

Smart Events International – 5* rated training provider in Europe, USA & Canada proudly presents the online training experience that no ambitious assistant or admin should miss!

In the new world of work the executive, administrative and personal assistants are expected to master remote work, virtual meetings, social media, office software and tools and always remain impeccably organized & competent in all things digital!

To support your professional development mission we bring you some of world best tech trainers to help you master most relevant tech skills you need:

THE TECH-SAVVY ASSISTANTS’ BOOTCAMP

Boost your career and advance with the essential technical skills for the new world of work through this workshops combo that will help you Level Up, Upskill & Discover the most relevant Tips & Tricks for the new digital hybrid workplace. We invite You to step up & Sign up because we have:

  • 5 INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS
  • WORLD BEST TECH TRAINERS
  • 5* RATED EVENTS ORGANIZER
  • THE ROLE OF THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
  • ALL THE RELEVANT TECH SKILLS YOU NEED
  • MICROSOFT TEAMS, OUTLOOK & ONENOTE
  • ‘FUTURE-PROOF’ YOUR CAREER
  • SOCIAL MEDIA FOR BUSINESS

  • October 27 & 28

    11 AM ~ 3 PM EDT

    October 27 & 28, 2021

    8 AM ~ 12 PM PDT Time Zone (Los Angeles, San Francisco)
    11 AM ~ 3 PM EDT Time Zone (New York, Boston, Toronto)
    17:00 ~ 21:00 CEST Time Zone (Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin)


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KEY LEARNING POINTS – Our speakers, world best tech & admin mentors will help you DISCOVER:

What are the key technical skills the future assistants needs

Latest Tips & Tricks in Microsoft TeamsTM, Microsoft OutlookTM, Microsoft Calendar, Microsoft OneNote TM

Best practices for Calendar & Meetings Management in the new Hybrid Workplace

Social Media for Business – Rock your Linkedin profile and Network like a Pro

How to ‘future-proof’ your career in the world of AI & uprising digitally ‘hooked’ executives

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AGENDA – List of Workshops

Day One: October 27, 2021Day Two: October 28, 2021
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11 AM – 12:30 PM (EDT)

Is Alexa really stealing your job? How to future proof your career

with Rhonda Scharf

Artificial intelligence is taking over our lives. Ask Alexa to call a client or confirm your schedule for the day, and Alexa will do just that immediately. Ask her a question, give her a command, or just share a joke together, and she becomes your new best employee.

Is Alexa stealing YOUR job? Does our future include a life without administrative support? Should you be worried about your future?

Here is what you’ll learn in this session

  • What you need to do to ensure that Alexa does not steal your job
  • What is unique and special about you?
  • What skills are needed and what skills aren’t needed in the future? Keeping yourself current is imperative to surviving the AI Revolution
  • Future proofing your career

12:30 – 2 PM (EDT)

Advanced Microsoft Teams Session for Assistants and Admins – Bringing collaboration to the next level

with Lizebeth Koloko Green

Оur amazing tech trainer – Lizebeth Koloko Green, licensed Microsoft Office Specialist will demonstrate the latest tips & tricks you need to Master all your meetings & Bring Team Collaboration to Life using MS Teams.

Our trainer will make a Live demonstration on how to:

  • Get practical advanced Tips & Tricks on how to get the best out of MS teams in work & life
  • Manage your meeting as an expert (meeting lifecycle, audience, do’s & don’t’s)
  • Discover all options to make your (remote) work with various teams more effective
  • Gain strategies for managing your Tasks & Teams within the tool
  • Discover how to manage your Files & important docs in teams / Upload – Sharepoint – guidelines – topics to avoid
  • Find out How to Customize your Teams (adding tab/channel – structure – moderate)
  • Learn how to use instant and persistent messaging from Teams
  • Extend your teams with third-party apps
  • Gain tips and tricks for using apps for even more functionality
  • Understand how to optimize and bring team collaboration to life
  • Discover how to become even more organized and productive with MS Teams

You will be able to make as many LIVE questions that our trainer will answer and also share a Manual with all questions & Instructions shared at the end.

Lizebeth Koloko

2:15 – 3 PM (EDT)

Latest Tips in MS OneNote for professional Assistants & Admins

with Lizebeth Koloko Green

In this session, you will get familiar with one of most widely used software tools for taking minutes on meeting, but also gain some tips on how to gain advantage of using MS OneNote for becoming even more organized in your professional and personal life:

  • Learn how to structure your OneNote Notebooks, Sections, and Pages effectively.
  • Learn how to integrate OneNote with other programs in the Microsoft Office Suite on your desktop or mobile devices.
  • Optimize your task management using OneNote with Outlook to get reminders for tasks and events.
  • Learn how to extract text from image and PDF documents using OneNote.

You will be able to make as many LIVE questions that our trainer will answer and also share a Manual with all questions & Instructions shared at the end.

Lizebeth Koloko

11 AM – 1 PM (EDT)

Calendar Management & MS Outlook Tips & Tricks for the Modern Assistant

with Shelley Fishel

In the busy hybrid working environment, where most professional assistants and admins deal with enormous workload and agile changes, email and calendar mastery is hugely important. The modern assistant needs to know how to get things done fast without spending time worrying about the how.

In this session lead by Shelley Fishel – The MS Office Maestro you will discover:

  • Navigation techniques that save you time
  • Managing your calendar with some latest hacks, tips & tricks
  • Use Quicksteps to speed up mundane tasks
  • Ditch the overwhelm of a full Inbox with several techniques
  • Create doable rules that save you time

Key Learning Points of this session:

  • Difference and different approaches between Appointments and Meetings
  • Calendar Views – what is the difference?
  • Color code your meetings with categories so that you always see what you are doing at a glance
  • Use conditional formatting in your calendar
  • Add tasks to your calendar to make sure they get done
  • Use the Scheduling Assistant to cut down back and forth when arranging meetings
  • Track who has responded to your meeting requests and export that data to Excel
  • What you need so that you can manage someone else’s calendar – Delegate permission
  • Open other calendars
  • Reply to an email with a meeting request
  • Send a copy of your calendar and availability by email
  • Use Rules to keep things under control
  • Use Quick Steps to simplify your work and do things quickly including replying to an email and creating an appointment
  • Create Microsoft Teams Meetings right from your calendar

1 – 1:15 PM (EDT)

Break

1:15 – 2:45 PM (EDT)

Social Media for Business: How to explore the Benefits of Social Media for representing your executive, Building a Personal Brand & Networking

with Diana Brandl

The importance of your own professional profile and networking activities on Social Media is particularly significant in the digital age. It is crucial for management assistants to position themselves and to pursue the right storytelling. Offline, but also online. But what belongs in a LinkedIn profile? Why do I need to become a follower of my own company? All this and more will be explored together with digital and personal branding expert Diana Brandl. Accompany the digital transformation as an active communicator and networker and invest into your digital mindset.

Content of the online training:

  • Personal Branding and self-marketing hacks
  • Networking made easy: Offline and online tips for immediate use
  • Storytelling at its best: How to sharpen your social media profile for the digital age
  • Forums, Communities & Podcasts: Valuable digital sources for globally connected assistants
  • Using LinkedIn for Business networking
  • Examples od Best Practices of professional use of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
  • Using Social Media for career development
  • How to support your executives in their social media representation and journey – their personal branding and/or following competition and relevant profiles

Your benefits: Your takeaways

  • You will receive expert tips on how to optimize your Social media profiles
  • You will make your brand visible and explore methods of Storytelling
  • You will learn how to build and expand your network
  • Manual / Slide Deck / Useful Links

MEET OUR SPEAKERS

Rhonda Scharf

World Recognized Admin Trainer & author of “Alexa is Stealing Your Job”

Rhonda Scharf is an award-winning Professional Speaker, Trainer, and Author, based in Ontario, Canada. She has spoken to tens of thousands of people in dozens of different countries. She conducts on-site training, keynote speeches, regular seminars and coaching to a variety of clients with a unique specialty in Administrative Professionals. She has walked in your shoes and teaches reality, not theory. She is very active within the administrative community and its various associations. She is known as the “go-to” person for Administrative Professionals and widely known and respected for her approach and solution-based information.

Her high profile list of clients include Compaq, The Canadian Olympic Association, Procter and Gamble, The Bill Gates Foundation, Sony, Mercedes-Benz, Barclays Bank, Royal Bank Merchant Visa, Deloitte & Touche, Tasweek, Dolphin Energy, Canadian Department of Justice, DuPont Pharmaceuticals, Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada, Department of National Defence Canada, The International Monetary Fund, and many other large and small organizations worldwide.

After college, she worked full time starting as a receptionist but worked her way up (several EA jobs) to be Executive Assistant to one of the Senior Vice Presidents of a national real estate company. She has worked in the trenches of office administration, dealing with all types and levels of executives. For the last 25 years, Rhonda has specialized in helping Administrative Professionals to thrive in their work environment, emerging at the end of the day with a smile and a sense of accomplishment.

Rhonda is also a respected author and has recently published her eighth book all focused on the EA/PA/Admin community.

Insightful… Humorous… Entertaining… even Contagious…

Lizebeth Koloko

Lizebeth Koloko

Millennial Microsoft Expert Office 365 | Microsoft Office Specialist Outlook, OneNote, and PowerPoint

Lizebeth Koloko-Green is the CEO & Founder of ANWOW (Adopt New Ways of Working). She is also an Executive Assistant at Nutanix France and has over 20 years of experience working in international corporate environments, including Symantec France and Areda Computer Systems. She holds a degree in Office Management from the University of Paris Créteil and is certified as a Microsoft Office Specialist in Outlook, OneNote, PowerPoint, and Word, and is bilingual in French and English.

Lizebeth is very passionate about learning and teaching Information Technology Software and often trains Executives, Sales Reps, and Administrative Professionals on Microsoft OneNote, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft PowerPoint, and other Office 365 Apps, as well as lecturing and speaking at conferences and events. She is a proud member of IMA France (International Management Assistants Network), IAAP (International Association of Administrative Professionals) and PANSA (Platinum Assistant Network – South Africa).

Lizebeth was selected to represent France in the 2018 World Administrators Summit in Frankfurt and the 2021 World Administrators Summit in Wellington, New Zealand.

Lizebeth grew up in Fremont, California, but was born in Paris, France, where she currently resides with her eight-year-old daughter, Aaliyah. In her spare time, she loves studying and learning foreign languages and new information technologies. She is currently studying German and Mandarin Chinese.

Shelley Fishel

The MS Office Maestro, International Tech Trainer & founder of TommorowsVA

Known as The MS Office Maestro Shelley has been a Microsoft Office trainer for over 20 years. Delivering face to face training sessions, training people remotely with various online tools and presenting at events.

Over the last several years Shelley has spoken or presented at a variety of events specifically aimed at Pas EAs and VAs helping them to improve the way they work including ExecSecTech, The PA Show, Hemsley Fraser – PA and Administrator Conference and the Practically Perfect PA online summit.

Helping Administrators keep up to date with Microsoft Office has become a passion.

Shelley holds COLF and CDOL from the Learning and Performance Institute of which she is also a Fellow. (COLF- Certified Online Learning Facilitator ) (CDOL – Certified Designer of Online Learning)

Tomorrow’s VA is an online training suite of courses for busy assistants, helping them make the most of the software they use every day. From Microsoft Word, to PowerPoint, to Excel and Outlook and the new kid on the block Microsoft Teams.

Twitter – @tomorrowsva and @shelleyfishel

Diana Brandl

International speaker, Former EA in tech companies, Expert on Digital Transformation

Diana Brandl is one of world most recognized assistants’ & admins’ tech trainer and author and also a former C-Suite EA herself in many multinational corporations.

holds a Degree in International Administration and Management, specializing in Office Management. Throughout her career, she has worked successfully for C-Level Executives within global corporations such as Sony.

Diana has a strong background in Communications and is a dynamic networker. She joined the professional network IMA (International Management Assistants) in 2006, and is an active member proudly looking back at her involvement as Board Member and Chair of Regional Group of IMA Berlin. She is also a member of the associations bSb and IAAP both supporting the role of the management assistant.

She continuously empowers assistants globally by speaking at international events and publishing various articles in Germany and abroad focusing on Digital Transformation, New Work, Personal Branding, Strategic Networking and Leadership. Diana writes her own blog The Socialista Projects and is the host of The Future Assistant podcast interviewing guests all over the globe such as the former assistant of Jeff Bezos and Barack Obama.

Diana Brandl describes herself as Digital Native and has worked in the start-up world, where she rediscovered her role as a management assistant with nearly 20 years of professional experience within the New Work generation. She teaches first-hand what it means to work with Millennial Managers and how important storytelling is in sharpening a profile.

Diana was selected to represent Germany in the 2018 World Administrators Summit in Frankfurt. She has been working on the future of the Admin industry with Office Professionals from all over the world.

Diana is a regular interview partner in Germany and abroad sharing her stories as an expert in Digital Transformation and Personal Branding. Diana is co-author of the book “Chefsache Assistenz” and best-selling author of the book “Die Assistenz in der digitalen Transformation” as well as “Future Skills”.

Diana was named as Woman of the Week by the Global Digital Women and has been nominated for the Digital Female Leader Award.

The average international rating of our events is
4.91

For program, trainers and organization
based on audiences’ evaluations from hundreds of events in Europe, USA & Canada

About Smart Events International

Smart Events International is a leading corporate education provider, organizing specialized workshops and in-house trainings in Europe, USA & Canada with world top trainers and mentors.

Our core mission is to help our trainees have a better life by helping them learn smart techniques to advance in their careers.

Our past events’ participants include assistants and managers from Google, CERN, World Health Organization, World Trade Organization, PWC, Ernst & Young, Royal Bank of Canada, Barclays Bank, McGill University, Shoppers Drugmart, Roche, Novartis, Nestle, Swarovski, IBM, Amazon, UBS, P&G, Unilever, Kelloggs, United Nations, Wrigley, McKinsey, Children’s Hospital of Chicago, The American Marketing Association, Uber.

In these challenging times we feel like it is our responsibility now, more than ever to help you work smarter, stay focused, motivated and gain the essential skills and knowledge to thrive in the new, partly virtual workplace.

Therefore we are packing and putting all of our expertise and knowledge in these webinars to help you thrive and shine in these tough times!

REGISTER TODAY & Do the best thing for your career!

WHAT ASSISTANTS AROUND THE WORLD SAY ABOUT OUR EVENTS

Priceless to get a relevant reminder of how important our job is to organisations. Lovely tips and personal experiences to share! Thank you for this new encouragement!

Super fun, interesting and extremely valuable class, thank you.

This is an amazing training which reminds us that being an assistant is important and we need to respect ourselves to be respected.

Good structure (exercises, interactions), new inputs, fresh and developed methods.

Thank you for the great session. So refreshing! Glad to hear examples from various companies.Great organization, thank you.

Very entertaining & funny! What a confidence boost!

The day was full of new and useful information. The group activities allowed us to hear different opinions and solutions. Thank you Smart Events!

Thank you for this great experience Smart Events!

Loved the seminar! Could listen Laura for weeks! Found a new love for my job and once again I’m proud of what I do and of what I achieved as an executive assistant. I will definitely come back for another seminar by Smart Events!

The best training I have attended so far. Thanks Smart Events!

Very motivational and great speaker! Great information and felt rejuvenated and passionate again about my job!

This was the best conference that I attended!!! Thank you so much I can’t wait to put the things I’ve learned into practice.

Laura is an excellent speaker, easy to understand. Provided wonderful experiences and examples.

This seminar has changed my life! I am going to recommend to every EA at work. So glad I came. Thank you!

Extremely relevant. I feel more confident with my capacities after today thank you!

This has been a very exciting course! I would definitely recommend this curse to other EA’s

Looking forward to putting the new skills to good use.

Really really interesting & give me the strength to go further & improve my position.

Event very well organized. Laura is inspiring, brilliant, smart & funny! Really appreciated the training, thank you!

Very passionate, inspiring and motivating. Thank you.

This was a wonderful opportunity to develop a new perspective on the EA role.

Amazing! WOW! Exceeded my expectations! Remotivated me to become the EA I know I am!

Thanks a lot! Very interesting Masterclass.

PARTICIPATION FEE

  • Regular Fee

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  • $490
  • *The price is in USD, all taxes included
  • WHAT YOU GET:
    • Certificate
    • Recordings of all workshops
    • Training Manual
    • Lifetime Access to “ADMINS CHAT” – monthly virtual educational & networking event
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  • Early Booking
  • Available until September 30th, 2021
  • $390
  • *The price is in USD, all taxes included
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    • Certificate
    • Recordings of all workshops
    • Training Manual
    • Lifetime Access to “ADMINS CHAT” – monthly virtual educational & networking event
  • Apply Now

  • Group Ticket

  • for 5 persons
  • $1950
  • *The price is in USD, all taxes included
  • WHAT YOU GET:
    • Certificate
    • Recordings of all workshops
    • Training Manual
    • Lifetime Access to “ADMINS CHAT” – monthly virtual educational & networking event
  • Apply Now

October 27 & 28, 2021

8 AM ~ 12 PM PDT Time Zone (Los Angeles, San Francisco)
11 AM ~ 3 PM EDT Time Zone (New York, Boston, Toronto)
17:00 ~ 21:00 PM CEST Time Zone (Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin)

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