Executive Assistant

Build on your skills for career advancement.

Learn the skills and knowledge you need to support executives in a fast-paced and demanding business environment.

If you are currently working as an administrative assistant or executive assistant, taking these courses can help you develop new skills and knowledge that will enable you to take on more challenging and rewarding roles within your organization.

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Micro-credentials are short, concentrated groups of courses that are really flexible. You can take as many as you like, in any order, and because they are asynchronous you can take them at any time it suits you. You will be awarded a badge for each individual course, once you have completed all four courses you will gain your micro-credential.

The cost for each individual course listed below is $60. For more Information email: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course Listing

Course ID: 

Name: Executive and Personal Assistants

Course Outcomes:

  • Adapt to the needs and styles of management.
  • Communicate through written, verbal, and nonverbal methods.
  • Improve time management skills.
  • Manage meetings effectively.
  • Act as a gatekeeper.
  • Use the tools of the trade effectively.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course ID: 

Name: Event Planning

Course Outcomes:

  • Outline the different types of events.
  • Describe the planning process.
  • Organize your event.
  • Describe how to organize your staff, and delegate effectively.
  • List what to do after the event.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course ID: 

Name: Archiving and Records Management

Course Outcomes:

  • Define records and archives.
  • Analyze records in context.
  • Classify records.
  • Describe different systems.
  • Maintain and convert records.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course ID: 

Name: The Cloud and Business

Course Outcomes:

  • Describe what the Cloud is.
  • Recognize risks and benefits.
  • Communicate effectively.
  • Employ business processes.
  • Monitor performance.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

We acknowledge that Portage College’s service region is on the traditional lands of First Nation Peoples, the owners of Treaty 6, 8 and 10, which are also homelands to the Métis people. We honour the history and culture of all people who first lived and gathered in these lands.
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