The Admin team leadership accelerator Course
strong team leadership delivers results.
How well led is your administration team?
In 2023, 60% of admin professionals worldwide indicated they did not have strong enough leadership of their administrative team in their organisation.
This is bad for business, creating missed opportunities for an aligned team to:
disrupt reactivity
create ease and flow and spaciousness where friction and pressure currently exists
be proactive with cost optimisation
increase organisational efficiency
align time/effort/energy to business priorities
operate with cross functional awareness
have clear progression and internal career runways
set the benchmark for excellence that an entire org will follow
deliver genuine value, unlocking ROI
It’s also bad news for the empowerment of teams. It creates missed opportunities to be developed in a meaningful way and have the advocacy that elevates admin professionals from being regarded as resources to talent in organisations.
For change to occur, it needs to begin from the top.
The problem is, too often those at the top are left to fend for themselves without clear direction, expectations or support and the grey area of missing reporting lines to navigate.
Those with leadership responsibilities aren’t being been trained or mentored to lead teams in a progressive way that’s fit for purpose in today’s business landscape.
This creates a lot of stress to navigate leadership alone by trial, error and instinct as and when capacity of day to day work allows. And anyone who does this work knows how challenging it is to manage your own workload and keep up with the pace of change without team leadership responsibilities in the mix.
It can be overwhelming.
It doesn’t have to be this hard.
become the leader you always wished you had
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become the leader you always wished you had 〰️
Great team leadership shouldn’t be left to chance and nobody should have to figure it out alone.
I created the Admin Team Leadership Accelerator course to meet the specific needs of admin team leaders - people like me in my former career - who want to make a difference and lead with more impact and much less stress.
Together we’ll navigate the key pillars all admin team leaders and managers need to work across to add value and foster a healthy and happy culture while developing the future proof teams that can drive organisational strategy as a collective.
Content that supports you and your team to thrive
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Meaningful Development
Support your team’s performance and progress in ways that truly make a difference.
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Culture
Foster a culture of high performance without the burnout and experience the benefits of an aligned team culture.
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Performance
Have the tools, best practices and processes that support your team to deliver a service that consistently meets your organisation’s business needs.
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Talent
Build a dream team and a pipeline of talent that allows room for internal progression and be equipped to be an advocate for your team.
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Leadership
Develop your own profile as a team leader or manager and have the tools to hold your own in the moments that matter.
Learning outcomes
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Giving and receiving feedback
Leading and feeding into performance reviews
Impactful goal setting for better results
Identifying development needs and getting the resources to support them
Identify your team’s individual strengths and leveraging those
Fostering a continuous learning and improvement culture
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Quality onboarding and off boarding that sets everyone up for success
Uplifting engagement
Elevating team meetings for greater impact
Advocacy for the team
Inclusion for admin professionals
Developing a memorable and aligned team brand
How to maintain high performance without burnout
Identifying the moments that matter in your team and balancing those and your workload
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Capacity management for admin teams
Aligning your team’s focus to business priorities
Best practices and ways of working that create ease for your team and your organisation
Modelling excellence as a team
Disrupting organisational reactivity
Supporting cost optimisation activities
Executive expectations of senior admin teams
Critical tools for the team to access to understand your business better
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Smart recruitment
Developing career pathways for your team
Succession planning to avoid skills and talent gaps
Recognition that feels meaningful for your team
Join or lead performance management discussions with ease
Make hiring recommendations to executives
Bridging generation gaps for better outcomes in your team
Mentor effectively and use mentoring as a development tool
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Facilitate change in your organisation through leveraging the power of an aligned team
Develop your executive presence as a team manager/leader
Increasing your influence for better outcomes within your team and across your organisation
Protect your resilience to overcome leadership challenges
Building business cases to gain executive support as needed
Team conflict resolution
this course is for:
Any senior admin professional who has formal or informal team leadership responsibilities
Those who are 2IC to senior admin professionals, so there’s adequate support in times of absence
The admin professionals who have a career trajectory that will require them to be able to lead a team in the future
Anyone who has had to figure out admin team leadership alone over time and wants the comfort and support to up-skill in a safe and welcoming environment
Those leading C-Suite/Level EA teams or general administration teams
The people who want to take a more active role in the leadership of their teams.
Built by someone who has been where you are.
Everything shared in the course is based on nearly 30 years of lived experience building and leading high performing and engaged administration teams.
All of the strategies, tips and tools you’ll learn have been personally tried, tested and proven to be successful in a wide range of industries, sectors, company structures and sizes.
I know how busy you are so the course has been designed to fit into busy lives, offering the spaciousness to reflect on learnings, trial the tips and strategies offered and begin to create meaningful change.
the format and delivery
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Pace + platform
The course is self-paced for you to complete at your leisure over two months. It is hosted on Podia - if you’ve studied in any of my other courses you’ll be familiar with it.
We begin on 1st June 2024
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Content
The content is available in full from the start date.
It consists of ~6 hours of tutorial videos.
The videos are supplemented by cheat sheets and mapped out best practices and processes that will support you long after you’ve completed the course.
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Live contact
Toward the end of the two months you’ll be invited to join a live class on Zoom where we'll dive into your questions/ concerns/challenges and support progress and momentum.
The call will be recorded and you will have the ability to ask questions in advance so you don’t miss out on the guidance you need if you cannot make the live call.
See FAQs for more info.
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Safe space
Live calls and my courses always operate on Chatham House Rules and all care is taken to create safe, inclusive environments where everyone feels welcome to speak and to be heard in a confidential environment.
Live call recordings are never repurposed or shared with other intakes so you can rest assured your privacy is protected.
The investment.
The first intake is offered at a special launch price of AUD $899, or as a payment plan of three instalments for AUD $930.
Bookings are now open and we begin on June 1st 2024.
FAQs
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If you’ve done The Elite EA Academy you’ll definitely be set up or success but it is not required.
The only pre-requisite is to have a open heart and mind, a commitment to learning and supporting others and leadership responsibilities or the aspiration to be an admin team leader or manager.
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Yes!
Whist we may have touched on similar theme in The Alchemist or Impactful Leader this course is focused on specifically leading teams. We deep dive into topics and themes relating to team leadership.
Those who have been through any of Rachael’s programs will benefit from this if they have responsibilities or an interest in leading or managing an admin team.
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As with everything in life, we get back what we put in. The course has roughly 7 hours of video tutorials, further recommended reading and best practices to consider.
Depending on how deep you choose to go, spending 1-2 hours a week over the 2 months will see you get results.
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The live call will be held within business hours in the AEST time zone, however if there is enough demand from registrants in European and the Americas time zones I will offer an additional call that falls within a mutually friendly time slot.
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No you won’t.
The live call will be recorded and everyone has the ability to ask questions in advance so you don’t miss out on the guidance you need if you cannot make the live call.
A replay will be available immediately following the live call in the course portal.
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Firstly, we operate on Chatham House Rules. That’s a circle of integrity and trust.
Secondly, if there’s something highly sensitive you want to ask, but in a private way, you can use the submit a question function in the course and I will respond to it on the call without revealing who has asked the question.
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Unfortunately not, for efficient management of the program and to protect the integrity of each group.
It is self paced and the live calls are recorded so you won’t miss out if life gets busy.
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Ummm….….no……
And I’m sure you can understand why!
We ask you kindly uphold the integrity that respects this as being intellectual property of Rachael Bonetti and observe copyright of the program and all of its downloadable materials just as you would with any other business, digital or print content.
If anyone is discovered through the administration analytics (just like Santa, we can see everything) to be piggy backing log-ins or circulating copyright course materials they’ll be removed from the program and refunds will not be given.
It’s a little bit like digital shoplifting, and that’s not cool, am I right?
Thank you for your respect , understanding and most of all, for your integrity.
It is important to ALL businesses, but particularly small businesses.
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You’ll have access to the course for 6 months from the start date.
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Some elements of the course are downloadable for you to keep beyond the course live intake.
There is a bank of downloadable cheat sheets, best practices and mapped out processes you can download to keep.
The instructional videos are not downloadable.
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Yes, there is a 10% discount for bookings of 2 or more from the same organisation in the same intake.
This topic is offered as an in-house training session.
Email Rachael at hello@rachaelbonetti.com to discuss.
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Rachael periodically opens private mentorship windows to work 1:1 with assistants in 4 week sprints and 90 minute strategy sessions.
She also delivers full team masterclasses / workshops and training sessions in organisations.
Rachael is a speaker who is regularly booked for conferences and corporate events.
She is also a meditation/mindfulness teacher.
Get in touch to chat about any other ways of working together at hello@rachaelbonetti.com
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Absolutely!
We can share suggested impactful wording for you to use as inspiration and tailor to suit your needs and objectives.
Why don’t we give you ALL the words to say?
Because that doesn’t create a high impact business case that will resonate for the person you support.
The wording is a great framework to start. Through personalising you’re demonstrating how doing the course will benefit your executive and your organisation and YOU.
Email Rachael at hello@rachaelbonetti.com to receive support with this.
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This is an optional questionnaire.
The questions will guide you through the key learnings of the course to help you reflect on what you’ve learned and how it applies to your role and organisation, or to help you fine tune you aspirations as team leader.
It’s highly recommended to take this extra step so you can articulate your progress made inside the course and your value as a leader.
About Rachael, your guide and trainer in the course.
Rachael Bonetti was a career executive assistant for nearly 30 years.
She was a well respected, high performer who supported thought leaders, change makers, CEOs, Chairs and a high profile billionaire.
Her career spanned many industries and sectors, both private and public companies and she physically worked/lived in 7 countries.
Rachael has experience in multiple corporate crises, Royal Commissions, serious economic downturn (the GFC), the Pandemic, leadership change (C-Suite, Chair and CEO), large scale restructures and acquisitions and sales of businesses.
Her ways of working , thinking and best practices saved 8+ hours a week for CEOs, increased efficiencies and eased friction and peak pressure periods across organisations.
She managed and built administration dream teams through creating finely tuned capability frameworks, impactful best practices and ways of working and targeted recruitment that supported creating internal career runways. She made the development of her teams a priority in every organisation she worked in, turning low performing teams into high performers and advocating for inclusivity, development, recognition and reward.
Today Rachael is a sought after consultant, corporate trainer, writer, international public speaker and lifelong, passionate advocate for executive assistants.
She has been creating and delivering highly impactful public and private masterclasses, workshops and courses that elevate the international administration community since 2019. She regularly offers free learning opportunities so that assistants all over the world have access to learning and development, regardless of their budget.
She is the host of the What It Means To Be Well podcast, a regular Forbes Australia contributor and she has specialist qualifications in communications and social media marketing.
Rachael is also a highly sought after wellbeing practitioner for wellbeing programs that support the administration community to thrive whilst navigating the unique challenges of their profession. She also works with organisations to support their broader workforce to achieve high performance without the burnout.
She facilitates meditation, breath work and Wayapa Wuurrk (earth mindfulness) and holds certifications in each. She is also accredited in First Nations Cultural Sensitivity.
Her clients love working with her for her grounded, warm and empathetic approach, her refreshing honesty and her ability to relate to what her clients are experiencing.
They’ve said they love being able to leverage her personal deep, unique experience to find practical solutions to the challenges they’re facing in their roles and careers.
Head to the Testimonials page to read some of her client’s experiences.