Let us help your organisation flourish

We want to help organisations in Australia flourish. Our contention is that EAs and PAs are the key to delivering a lot greater productivity and performance within organisations and we want to show your organisations why this is the case, and how we can help

And, if possible, we would love to have your help in getting us the opportunity to come into your organisations and discuss this directly with your L&D managers, HR managers or even your executives.

Executive performance and productivity is directly linked to the performance of the EA, as well as to the partner relationship that exists between the EA and executive.

To us, this as obvious as night following day. But, strangely enough, we see that many organisations consistently miss this correlation, or at the very least, miss the extent to which it is important and the productivity and performance enhancements EAs and PAs can help deliver.

Many organisations are looking to rationalise their EA and PA positions whilst, paradoxically, in others, some executives are realising the vast benefits from having highly skilled and knowledgeable aides working alongside them to help manage their offices.

It is our contention that rationalisation that considers only the obvious tasks undertaken by most assistants and looks to distribute these among teams of group assistants or even specialist technical groups either here or overseas, risks impacting the effectiveness of executives at all levels in an organisation. We believe that great EAs are a resource that should be nurtured and harnessed, and we believe we are the only organisation in Australia fully capable of helping businesses do this.

From Reactive and Directed to Proactive and Managing – the EA’s new role in managing Executive Energy, Focus, Mind-Set and Priorities

• Good EAs and PAs do more than provide a cost benefit saving in terms of executive time relative to the time of cheaper employees

• Good EAs and PAs actually enhance productivity and performance

• The true nature of what EAs and PAs actually do is often misunderstood (fewer than 25% of EAs believe they have job descriptions that accurately reflect what they do)

• The true nature of the benefits provided by EAs is almost entirely misunderstood (fewer than 5% believe they have performance measurement criterion that are relevant for their roles)

• If a basic assistant enhances executive performance by 20%, a good EA should enhance it by 40%, and a great one by closer to 50% - 60%

• Forward looking and forward thinking EAs and PAs, who have full understanding of executive priorities and objectives, can work to ensure the executive spends as much time as possible on higher level thought activities, managing their energy to stop them being distracted by the mundane aspects of their office

No other training organisation in Australia has the unique level of knowledge and understanding in regards to your role as we do. This unique IP and our unique tools make us unrivalled when it comes to being able to help explain to organisations how much more they could do to support you in supporting them.

It is time for organisations to realise the vast benefits that can come through investment in their EAs and PAs and we want to help ensure this happens.

Jonathan McIlroy, one of our founders and a Director of EAN has recently taken over direct control of the Education and Training part of the Network. He would love to have the opportunity to come in and discuss directly with your managers or executives how we can help your organisation.

If you would like to arrange a time for him to come into your organisation please contact him at jonathan@executiveassistant.com or on 02 8402 5000.

The EAN Team

PS – can you imagine what a 20% increase in executive team performance and productivity would mean to your organisation. We believe these are the types of enhancements that are possible!!