If you are a well organised person, you will remain well organised regardless of the job you will be doing.  It is one of the soft skills you will bring with you to any position and is an important employability skill. Strong organisational skills are important for a variety of reasons, and they all have […]

In Organisational Skills 2, we are going to look at two skills that are essential for an administrative professional: Time management – research has shown that people who possess good time management skills are the highest achievers. It is not so much that we do not have enough time but more how we organise the […]

In Module 6, we look at the following topics: Managing physical resources including equipment and supplies Technology update Ethics Finance for non-financials These are areas where you might not be directly involved. If you are working for a large organisation, the work is divided into different departments where you might not necessarily need to know […]

Problem solving is one of the necessities of life.  We solve problems every day – while some problems are big, most are small and every now and then a life-or-death problem comes along! Problem solving becomes like second nature – at times you do not even realise that you are using a method to solve […]

In Module 8, we are going to look at how the functions and features of Microsoft Office i.e. MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and MS Outlook help us to be more productive in the workplace. Most users of MS Office learn by default or have attended a workshop when it came out many years […]

OPSA Personal Empowerment Programme Part 1: Self Awareness

This is Part 3 of the OPSA Personal Empowerment Programme.

Setting goals is easy to do, achieving them is a little more difficult. in this webinar we look a the book The Magic Lamp: Goal setting for people who hate setting goals by Keith Ellis for some ideas of how to set the goals and what to do to make them happen!

OPSA Personal Empowerment Programme Part 2: Mindsets

There are very few successful people or organisations who got to where they are by simply doing the same thing. In fact, great leaders seek out change and pursue it feverishly, understanding that to be truly innovative and ahead of trends, you must embrace change. But being adaptable is not just about embracing change. Being […]