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Would you like to complete continuing education, further training in office management?
 
Here you will find an overview of schools, further information and resources.

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With continuing education, further training in office management, you will become a certified office manager who has a perfect command of the organization of office work and operational processes.
 
As an office manager, you work as a hub or service provider at the interface with various functions and specialist departments. You have office organization, work technology, time management, digital work, processes, tools and projects under control.
 
The following topics are covered in continuing education, further training:

  • Business administration basics
  • Work organization (structuring and tackling tasks)
  • Cooperation and type-appropriate executive relief
  • Have the flow of information under control
  • Professional filing and document management (data protection)
  • Value of documents (retention period, security aspects)
  • Plan and organize meetings and discussions
  • Customer and guest service with style
  • Confident communication
  • Successful telephone conversations
  • The digital office and project management
  • Performance skills and self-competence
     

After completing the Office Management course, graduates will be able to organize office work and operational processes (reception, secretarial, accounting and personnel administration), take on personnel planning and staff appraisals, organize training and continuing education, further training, conduct negotiations, manage projects, carry out market analyses, organize meetings, document management and office materials management.

Office managers who have strong communication skills and assertiveness, act as a good role model, take a structural approach and have good self-organization skills can make an important contribution to a company and its management. The function in office management can vary and the representation of the management as well as the responsibility of many sub-areas of a company are conceivable in this professional field. As a direct link between management and staff, you need specialist knowledge, a high level of responsibility and a high degree of initiative. You are directly involved in almost all areas of a company and are mainly responsible for task management.

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The typical tasks of an Office Manager are:

  • Manage reception / secretariat
  • Management represented
  • Scheduling and event organization
  • Filing and document management
  • Personnel planning
  • Conduct staff appraisals
  • Organize training and further education
  • Project management
  • Accounting

The following options are available for the Office Management course:

  • Seminars and courses
  • Certificate courses
  • Management assistant with federal certificate (management assistant)
  • NDS HF in Management and Leadership

Office management training teaches you:

  • Basic knowledge
    • Business administration
    • Management & Leadership
    • Project management
  • Core tasks
    • Organization
    • Correspondence
    • Authentic leadership, conflict resolution
    • Personnel management
    • Financial management
    • Motivation and cooperation
  • Appearance and impact
    • Self-management
    • Self-motivation
    • Ego-strengthening
    • Dealing with different management styles

The target group for office management training are:

  • Assistants and assistants
  • Secretaries and secretaries
  • Office managers and office managers
  • Clerks and clerks
  • People who would like to develop further in this function

Depending on the content and degree, continuing education, further training in office management takes between one and three semesters. Individual office manager skills can also be acquired in seminars, such as time management, assistance 4.0, leadership without a management function, personnel law, IT skills, presentation skills, digitalization, data protection, data analysis, correspondence, conducting conversations, conflict management, project management, taking minutes, self-management, work psychology for everyday working life. Ask the school of your choice about the possible duration.

The following requirements are necessary for office management:

  • Very structured way of working
  • Organizational talent
  • Load capacity
  • Enjoy dealing with people
  • Interest in commercial contexts
  • Multilingualism (German and English confident)
  • Experience in project management, finance and secretarial services
  • Industry experience
  • Commercial training, e.g. through an office management course

You can also find out about the current requirements in the current job advertisements.

As an Office Management Assistant, the following soft skills are helpful:

  • Intercultural competence
  • Resilience and stress resistance
  • Organizational skills
  • Assertiveness
  • Empathy
  • Entrepreneurial mindset
  • Good analytical skills
  • Foreign language skills - especially English

Redaktionelle Leitung:

Stefan Schmidlin, Bildungsberatung, Content-Team Modula AG

Quellen

Website des Schweizerischen Sekretariats für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation SBFI , Website www.berufsberatung.ch (offizielles schweizerisches Informationsportal der Studien-, Berufs- und Laufbahnberatung) sowie Websites und anderweitige Informationen der Berufsverbände und Bildungsanbieter.

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