The Annual Executive Assistant Conference

Acorn will be running its Annual Executive Assistant Conference on Monday 7 December 2009. This is an opportunity for Acorn to thank its Executive and Personal Assistant clients for their support over the last few years. Network with other Executive Assistants while you become informed and inspired. Click here for the conference brochure

New Valued Customer Program

Acorn is introducing a Valued Customer Program for 2009. This program will give you another way to make your training dollar go further.

You can either continue to take advantage of the early bird price discount or use the Valued Customer Program.

The Valued Customer Program works by making every purchase you make earn your organisation points. These points can then be redeemed by giving you free places on our workshops. Booking one place on any of our one day public workshops at full price will be worth two points. Booking one place on any of our two day public workshops at full price will earn you four points.

Once you have accumulated 20 points you can have a place on any one day workshop at no charge.

In house workshops will be worth 20 points each so if you book an in house workshop you can have a place on any public workshop at no charge.*

For smaller organisations we will identify a contact person who will be responsible for the allocation of free workshop places. For larger organisations, for example, Defence, ATO, Centrelink etc points will belong to the area/purchasing officer who makes the bookings.

*Please note where workshops have an “instrument” e.g. Emotional Intelligence that will need to be paid for by the attendee.

New Workshops

We have some great new workshops for 2009 and 2010. If you click on the workshop title you can download a flyer about each workshop.

Dealing with Difficult Clients, Colleagues and Situations Tuesday 1 December 2009 (flyer coming soon)

Emotional Intelligence at Work Friday 19 February 2010

If you think you have an idea for a new workshop please email elizabeth@acorntraining.com.au with your suggestions.

Conferences:

Acorn continues to run informative monthly conferences for Executive Assistant's and Public Servants in Canberra.

Visit our Conference Centre for more information on the upcoming events.

Workshops available in Sydney.

Acorn Training now offers all of its "Productiv_IT" range of workshops in Sydney.

Acorn has engaged a Sydney Speaker/Trainer to manage our operations in Sydney.

Maggie Webber, who specialises in Work/Life Balance training, will manage the Sydney operation of Acorn. She will initially focus on filling public workshops and looking for in-house training opportunities with existing and new clients. She will also be looking for local trainers to run Acorn’s workshops and new trainers with their own workshops to be part of Acorn’s brokerage service.

We have been running training in Sydney mainly to Commonwealth Government agencies and we are looking forward to providing a better service to these clients. We are looking forward to broadening our customer base into the NSW Government, financial sector and other commercial organisations.

Weekly Updates: (back to top)

Most Mondays, Acorn sends out a weekly e-mail to our subscribers. It usually contains some information about what is happening at Acorn or presents some information of interest. It also contains a brief outline on our workshops and upcoming workshop dates.

For further information please contact either John or Elizabeth:

Phone: (02) 6217 7000 in Canberra
E-mail: john@acorntraining.com.au or elizabeth@acorntraining.com.au

Below are a couple of months of previous weekly updates:

Current Month Updates	February 2010 Updates	January 2010 Updates
Monday_01 March	Monday 01 February	Monday_04 January
Monday 15 March	Monday 08 February	Monday_11 January
	Monday 15 February	Monday 18 January
	Monday 22 February	Monday_25 January