Secretaries And Personal Assistants often play a vital role in supporting management. Understanding the key techniques and skills of management will increase the level of positive support that can be given. An appreciation of the role of management will enhance communication and lead to more efficient working. This interactive training programme will provide delegates with an awareness of the management skills that are required to produce results into the competitive new millennium.

This programme is most beneficial to personal assistants and secretaries who have recently joined or are working within a management environment or personal assistants/executive secretaries of senior managers who need a greater awareness of various functions of management.

Personal assistant/executive secretary's guide to management is being held at the MISCO Training Centre in Valletta on March 6 from 2.30 to 6 p.m.

Human resources development programme

In today's business environment, human resources management is gaining crucial importance not only to those who are directly involved in the field, but also to others who has a responsibility for managing people. The human resources development programme is aimed at managers, executives and supervisors to enable them to be more equipped in their involvement in the various areas of human resources. This detailed and interactive programme will be held at the MISCO Training Centre in Valletta from February 17 to February 21 between 2.30 and 5.30 p.m.

This workshop style programme will provide participants with a very good understanding of various topics including human resources development within a modern management perspective, training needs analysis, selection and interviewing, job descriptions, job evaluation, on-the-job-training and performance appraisal.

Practical public relations

Media Professionals are becoming more discerning and demanding in terms of the quality of the material they handle. PR consultants need a variety of skills to be able to handle their roles effectively not only to ensure that their clients are given the widest possible exposure on all media but also to produce material that the media organisations can use.

"Practical public relations", being held at the MISCO Training Centre in Valletta between February 24 and February 27 from 4.30 to 7 p.m., takes participants through the various skills they are expected to have a command of.

Starting with how to put up and moderate a press conference, there will be units on press release writing, putting together a press pack, interviewing skills and feature writing.

For further information on the above courses contact M'Louise Xuereb at MISCO on tel: 2122-0303/2123-9683, fax: 2124-7512/2125-1083 or e-mail: mlxuereb@miscomalta.com