This year Adam Fidler Academy celebrates its ten-year anniversary. Founded by Adam Fidler, the Academy has trained and educated thousands of EAs and PAs since its launch back in the summer of 2016… Adam is well-known in the industry – he was the trainer who introduced the competence of EAs being strategic back in 2016 – long before any other PA/EA ‘trainer’ talked about the concept – and was featured on…
read moreThe Adam Fidler Academy’s Graduation Ceremony 2024 took place on the 18 July at the Abode Hotel in Manchester. The event saw EA and PA qualifications celebrated with a formal graduation, in academic dress, having completed Level 3, Level 4 and Level 5 qualifications from the Academy. The bulk of learners at Adam Fidler Academy qualify with degree-equivalent programmes, making…
read moreBy Adam Fidler, Founder, Adam Fidler Academy Adam Fidler is the Principal and Founder of the Adam Fidler Academy, which offers inspirational teaching and learning for PAs, EAs and business support professionals. Adam Fidler, often gets asked what key attributes organisations are seeking in their EAs and he shares his insights with PA Life… “I was talking to a group of…
read moreBy Adam Fidler Academy There are many reasons why today’s Executive Assistants and Executive PAs need to consider professional learning and development. In a competitive marketplace, EAs and PAs need to continually ask themselves ‘What sets me apart from my peers?’ – and an accredited training programme or qualification can certainly do that. Here at Adam Fidler Academy, we have…
read moreMost people are familiar with the term IQ (intelligence quotient) and EQ (emotional intelligence), however a fairly new term found in the workplace is GQ (gender quotient). Adam Fidler, founder of the Adam Fidler Academy, spoke at the PA Life Summit today with a key focus on gender intelligence and how it can enable women and men understand each other’s…
read moreLeading PA training practitioner Adam Fidler has today joined the judging panel of Pitman Training’s SuperAchievers Awards to hunt out PA of the Year 2016. Adam, who has worked as a board-level PA for blue-chip organisations including Boots PLC and Bank of America, sits alongside mum blogger and author Kirsty Smith, as well as last year’s SuperAchiever PA of the…
read more“There are many people out there doing EA roles. There are 3.2 million in the UK alone doing admin roles and secretarial work, with 10 million working in positions that require admin skills to support their main job. In 2015, 20% of new UK roles were in ‘admin’ and over the next five years 1.2 million people are needed to…
read moreWhy are so few EAs good at, or confident in writing? Some would argue it’s because they never do any writing in their jobs. Aside from short emails, how much do EAs write? Adam Fidler, founder of Adam Fidler Academy discusses the surge in using generative AI such as ChatGPT to do most of the writing for EAs… Executive Assistants…
read morePA Life Autumn Issue is hot off the press and in it we feature our career development column by Adam Fidler, trainer of EAs and PAs at Adam Fidler Academy… You can actually be an Executive Assistant and not work for a C-Suite executive. You might support a Head of Marketing, or Head of Operations. Therefore, the view that the…
read moreThere has always been much debate and controversy, over the Executive Assistant job title and that of a Personal Assistant. Adam Fidler has been training assistants for over 10 years and is still witnessing the job titles being a bone of contention, acknowledging the challenge of finding the ‘right’ title for everyone in the business support role… Personal Assistant title…
read moreWho better to help EAs and PAs in their quest to be more strategic than Adam Fidler, author of The Strategic Executive Assistant™, one of his best-selling programmes. As Adam explains, being strategic starts by asking the right questions… Questions a Strategic Executive Assistant should ask Firstly, I encourage all EAs and PAs to ask lots of open-ended questions Open-ended…
read moreGetting the core skills of PAs and EAs right is your brand reminds Adam Fidler, trainer and education of Executive Support Professionals in his latest column for PA Life print magazine, also published in our Winter 2024 Issue… “We spend a lot of time at Adam Fidler Academy talking to our students about the importance of broadening their roles, and…
read moreAs well as training and educating first-class PAs and EAs, Adam Fidler, Principal and Founder of Adam Fidler Academy, is often asked to run sessions teaching Executives work better with their Executive Assistant. Many Executives struggle with the vision and confidence to take their EA into a partnership, particularly if they’ve never had an EA before… Here is some much-needed…
read moreThere still seems to be much confusion out there about the difference between a secretary, Personal Assistant (PA) and Executive Assistant (EA). Adam Fidler, Founder and Director of Adam Fidler Academy, explains why an EA is not the same as a PA. Now, I’m not here to talk about secretaries, as that certainly isn’t a title I’d expect to see…
read moreIs having an ego and mastering self-promotion the same thing? Emma Hulbert, Senior Principal Consultant at Lily Shippen Recruitment discusses the definitions and differences… Do you ever think about posting something you are proud of either personally or professionally on a platform such as LinkedIn, but stop yourself because you are worried that people will think you are egotistical or…
read moreThere’s a new buzzword in town: ChatGPT. Personally, I’m getting a bit tired of hearing about it, says Adam Fidler, founder of Adam Fidler Academy. We’ve had scores of emails from Executive Assistants (EAs) and Personal Assistants (PAs) all over the world asking how ChatGPT and, more collectively, artificial intelligence (AI), will affect their roles… Interestingly, my views on artificial…
read moreIf you love a role that is diverse and will give you an insight to the workings of an organisation, then a PA career would be a perfect road for you. Sienna Shipton asked PA and EA training experts Lindsay Taylor, the Co-Founder and Director of Your Excellency Limited and Adam Fidler, the founder of the Adam Fidler Academy for…
read moreExecutive Assistants are master meeting planners. So it makes sense that they’re frequently asked to organise offsites and other in-person meetings in addition to their other responsibilities. If you’re an Executive Assistant tasked with this, there is one thing to keep in mind: offsite planning mistakes will happen to all of us. Providers of innovating solutions for the future of…
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