Meet the
MY ZONE OF GENIUS
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Transforming assistants from task oriented workers into administrative LEADERS through skills training, behavioral analysis, and leadership development.
THIS ACCELERATOR IS FOR YOU AND YOUR ASSISTANT IF...
You need to protect your time and energy by delegating projects to someone you trust
You have a lean team and need to develop a leader within your team
You desire to unplug from work without disrupting the business operations
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Your assistant has leadership potential and wants to grow in their role
Your assistant has at least 1-2 years of admin, operations, or support experience
Your assistant is tech savvy, organized, and generating ideas for your business
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THE A.T.O.M.I.C. ASSISTANT
ACCELERATOR FRAMEWORK
Training
30 days of one-on-one professional and leadership development through the A.T.O.M.I.C. curriculum creating a high achieving Administrative Professional with influence to successfully manage up to the Consultant or Corporate Leader and views their role as an apprenticeship in leadership
Application
60 days of additional support as your Assistant’s accountability partner with biweekly 1-hour check-ins and individual sessions with a Certified Behavioral Consultant to help create strategies for increased synergy between Consultant/Corporate Leader and Assistant
Transformation
The Assistant will operate as an Administrative Professional ready for leadership, display increased emotional intelligence + self awareness, and provide high functioning execution working in true partnership with the Consultant or Corporate Leader
INCLUDING Behavioral Assessments
Certified Behavioral Specialist
You and your assistant will work with a Certified Behavioral Specialist to employ strategies for improving work dynamics
Behavioral Analysis
The consultant also conducts an behavioral analysis assessment with you and your assistant to find the synergy between your work styles
THE OUTCOMES FOR YOUR ASSISTANT
Face it, you need MORE from your assistant and you need it now. Give me 90 days to train and develop your assistant into a powerhouse leader you know they can be.
Summer Swafford
Founder, SummerSaid
Meet Your Trainer
With almost 20 years of supporting executive level leaders in the nonprofit and higher education space, I’ve leveraged my professional experience and my love for tech to support business owners initially as a virtual assistant and now as a Remote Project Manager and Trainer. Also known as the Architect of Operations, my expertise is in developing assistants not only in the hard skills and technology of their role, but also in soft skills of leadership, self awareness, and emotional intelligence to understand how to operate as an adminstrative leader and high functioning professional.
THE CURRICULUM
We provide professional development in 6 major areas that create the A.T.O.M.I.C. Curriculum:
A - accountability
T - technology
O - organization
M
- mindset
I - impression
C - communication
Accountability
Skill Focus:
- Execution on projects/tasks
- Managing up to leader
- Timelines and deadlines
- Intro to leadership
technology
Skill Focus:
- Increasing automation and security with technology
- Tracking workflows using project management tools
- Solution oriented troubleshooting
- Leadership via expanding tech knowledge
organization
Skill Focus:
- Establishing daily internal operations
- Fine-tuning cross functional systems
- Creating operational resources
- Leading organizational improvements within teams
mindset
Skill Focus:
- Behavioral assessment and analysis
- Growth mindset practices and self awareness
- Assistant/Leader work style synergy
- Exploring servant leadership
impression
Skill Focus:
- 7 specific soft skills to increase their power of influence
- Understanding how to employ emotional intelligence
- Representing a leader in their absence
- Reputation of a administrative leader
communication
Skill Focus:
- Professional communication best practices
- Confidential communication
- Conveying information to Client/Team/Leader
- In-person vs online leadership language
Get In Touch
504.208.2639
summer@imsummersaid.com
located virtually everywhere
Frequently Asked Questions
The 30 days of training will take place remotely between the trainer and the assistant covering the A.T.O.M.I.C. curriculum which is a mixture of 1-on-1 skills training, self-paced videos, and written assignments and reflections. The additional 60 days will be biweekly 1:1 check-ins where the assistant learns to lead the meeting and report out on their progress to goals.
At this time the training is set up as private professional development sessions. There will be no group sessions.
Assistants will be trained on technology that includes but is not limited to: project management software, scheduling software, electronic document storage (Google Drive and Dropbox), Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat DC, Canva, Zoom, and mobile phone apps for business.
A.T.O.M.I.C. stands for Accountability, Technology, Mindset, Impression, and Communication. These are the 6 areas of focus within the curriculum. We infuse leadership development under each area.
Assistants will be given a workbook that they will use throughout the training to take notes, complete assignments, and prepare for 1:1 check-ins. They will also learn the key ideas from the book Rocket Fuel by Gino Wickman and Mark C. Winters as well as Atomic Habits by James Clear.
Yes, we are more than happy to provide additional options that allows us to continue to support your assistant in their professional development at the end of the 90 day training.