PA INDUSTRY NEWS
August 2010
August saw Susie Barron-Stubley leading a two day conference in Sun City in South Africa, alongside Robin Banks, a leading motivational speaker from Cape Town. With over 240 delegates from across South Africa and a fabulous gala dinner, it was an incredible experience. The conference was run just a few weeks after the close of the World Cup and the atmosphere and momentum generated from such a successful World Cup carried over into the conference, with PAs and Office Professionals ready to take their new experiences back into the workplace.
Susie Barron-Stubley, presenting at Office SA 2010
June 2010
Castalia Coaching & Training becomes Corporate Affiliate of the CPD Institute
Castalia Coaching & Training has become a Corporate Affiliate of the CPD Institute. This new relationship is a demonstration of the company's continuing commitment to provide the very best training for Personal Assistants. Our training programmes are eligible for CPD points and further information will be available shortly.
The CPD Institute is part of the Continuing Professional Development Foundation, an educational charitable trust providing high-quality and broad-ranging CPD since 1981. The Institute serves the public interest by helping to raise the effectiveness of professionals through the promotion of CPD as an important and integral element of lifelong learning.
May 2010
Our congratulations go to Laura Richardson of Elexon who has been crowned the 2010 Hays/The Times PA of the Year, a well deserved winner and we wish her every success over the coming year.
From Left to Right:
Anuszka Elland, The Times/Hays PA of the Year 2009
Susie Barron-Stubley Judge of The Times/Hays PA of the Year Award 2010
Laura Richardson The Times/Hays PA of the Year 2010
May 2010
A brand new pioneer way to experience Persoanl Assistant Training has been launched! The Secrets of Top Performing PAs Training DVDs is now available to buy, a 3 Disc Box Set that will enable PAs to access high quality and relevant training whilst providing a resource that PAs can go back to time and again. Click here for further information.
January 2010
It's all change at Castalia Coaching & Training in 2010! Gerry Hyde who has been supporting Susie Barron-Stubley over the last year has now gone off on maternity leave to have her twins - we wish her all the very very best and look forward to welcoming her back later in the year. In the meantime, we are delighted to welcome Amy Maisey to the team, who will be Susie's new PA and taking on a multitude of responsibilities at Castalia.
November 2009
Susie Barron-Stubley is delighted to have been invited to run an intenstive 2 day training programme for senior Executive PAs in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at the beinging of December. Susie is passionate about taking our specialised development programmes to different areas of the world and continues to build on our international reputation for being one of the leading providers of Executive PA Coaching & Training in the world. Click here to view the full training programme details.
September 2009
Once again we have teamed up with the fabulous PA-Assist.com to run a short survey on where you feel your development needs are.We are constantly striving to provide the most relevant training courses on the market for you, and we need your input to achieve this! As a thank you for taking part one, everyone will be entered into a prize draw to win one of our fabulous silver desksets.So what are you waiting for! Let us know Are there areas of your role that you feel un-qualified to perform.Click here to go straight to the survey page.
March 2009
Castalia Coaching & Training have formed a VERY exciting partnership with The Vineyard Hotel & Spa at Stockcross. Our 2 day residential training programme The PA Retreat will now be held at this luxury 5 Star venue just a short train journey from London. As well as delegates developing themselves and learning key skills to become amongst the top performing PA in the world, delegates have complimentary use of the Spa during their say, their own private suite with direct access to the gardens and experience 2 Star Michelin dining. What are you waiting for - this is one unbeatable package!
March 2009 - Survey Results
What is the one thing you would change about your Boss and Why?
We had a lot of fun reading through all of the responses we had to our survey that we ran in conjunction with
PA-Assist.com. Thank you to all those that responded! In the end we couldn’t narrow the winner down to just one, so we picked two lucky PAs have received our gorgeous silver desk set and boy do we think they deserve them! Here where are the winning replies who remain anonymous to protect the guilty!
"I was unfortunate enough to have a boss who had a regular routine of taking off his shoes and socks and cutting his toe nails with his office scissors! He thought nothing of doing this during meetings with his team!!"
"My boss had a bowel problem and would spend quite a while in the en suite bathroom in his office. He usually took the phone into the bathroom with him, but if an urgent telephone call came and he hadn't taken the phone with him I had to knock on the door and let him know there was an urgent call. Not a pleasant experience!!!!"
Doesn’t it make you grateful!!
February 2009 - One of our star coaching clients Debbie Neal was nominated for the Deskdemon Administrative Professional Fellowship Award, and she won! She gives a full interview on her experiences in this Februarys PA Enterprise and shares tips on how to be an exceptional PA to the CEO of a FTSE 100 company.
January 2009 - Academic research into how PAs and bosses work together
We are delighted to be assisting the University of Glasgow in some ground breaking academic research into the dynamics between PAs and their bosses. The project is investigating the impact of a PA's motivation upon their bosses motivation. The research is investigating what makes for a productive relationship at work and the research team would like your input. This means completing two short on-line questionnaires (5 minutes and 10 minutes) you will then be sent a detailed professional development report about yourself based on a leading-edge personality test. If you can persuade your boss to complete similar questionnaires, we will also provide them with a report about themselves. When the research is complete we will provide a summary of the research for you both. Click here for the questionnaire for PAs.
During 2008 no less that 2 of our coaching clients won national awards for being the best PAs in the business.Our huge congratulations go to both Debbie Neal and Jacqueline Knowles who won the Deskdemon Management Support Fellowship Award and the IIR Executive PA of the Year award respectively. We are so proud that two of our clients have been judged to be amongst the top PAs in the country, and we hope to carry on the tradition of training and coaching the best in the business!
April 2008, The Times, Train to take the Strain, Courses boost your efficiency, but which provider is best?
April 2008 One of our coaching clients, Rachael Pearce, is interviewed by deskdemon.com on what it is like to be PA to Daniel Bedingfield. Click here to read the full article.
August 2008 saw Susie Barron-Stubley deliver a hugely successful road show of training The Executive PA: Achieving Exceptional Performance throughout South East Asia for the second year running...
"I can't tell you how much I enjoyed being invited back to train so many wonderful PAs in South East Asia, their commitment and passion to being the amongst the best PAs in the world is humbling. We had delegates from Hong Kong, The Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, the atmosphere was one of excitement to develop and learn, but just as importantly to network with their peers, friendships where forged and we might even have paired up two of the delegates romantically!!" Susie Barron-Stubley
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