The Douglas Difference

With training budgets stretched tightly today, it is essential that you participate in the best training available. Our programs are designed to help participants develop their intellectual, interpersonal, and organizational skills. At every P.A. Douglas & Associates course you are guaranteed:

 1. Proven Long-Running Top-Rated Courses: 

For more than five decades, we have worked with HR departments, executives, managers, and thousands of administrative professionals to ensure our training programs meet their needs. It is from this extensive experience that we have crafted our highly effective programs. Our focus and concentration is on the administrative professional's ability to function more successfully and collaboratively vertically with senior management as well as horizontally across the broader organization. The praise our courses have received reflects the persistent research and consequent revisions that ensure our courses are always at the cutting edge.

 2. Certified Courses: 

We use the university standard. All our courses are taught by qualified faculty rather than scripted presenters. Our faculty members hold, as a minimum, a Master's Degree from a fully accredited university and one or more professional qualifications (Ph.D., CMC, PMP, etc). Our faculty also have at least 12 years of experience in their area of expertise. This means that our courses are credentialed for professional excellence. In addition to your professional achievement certificate, you will receive continuing educational units (CEU’s) and at our administrative professionals' courses your APC certification.

 3. Limited Enrollment Seminar:

Our seminars are NOT conferences.  You will not be crammed into a ballroom with hundreds of others to listen to a series of keynote speakers or be lectured to. Nor will you be forced to engage in skits, line dancing, or any such nonsense. Our programs are content-rich, practical educational workshops that teach real, consequential skills. We recognize that your time is valuable; rather than endless group discussions, you will leave our carefully tailored, practical courses with NEW skills that will immediately heighten your organizational, management and interpersonal skills.

 4. First-Class Accommodation Included:

One of the greatest benefits of attending a truly limited-enrollment residential program is the networking and camaraderie that take place outside the educational sessions. It is for this reason that, unlike other courses, where participants must find their own accommodations, arrange their own meals etc., at our residential courses everyone is under the same roof. Your course fee includes your tuition, accommodation (room & taxes), breakfast each day, luncheon, refreshments, comprehensive courseware, individual Multidimensional Inventory & Normative Diagnoses (iMind2), as well as an individual password for online materials to assist you after the program is over.

 5. COURSES not CONFERENCES:

What is the difference between a conference and a course? The greatest difference is that in a true course or seminar, the communication is two-way. Rather than just being a member of an audience, passively listening to a number of speakers giving talks. There is a much greater feeling of collegiality and continuity at a true seminar. Our groups are small, and the emphasis is on education, not entertainment. At our seminars and workshops, you are engaged with the faculty. You are a participant, not simply an attendee. Our courses are content-rich and designed to provide knowledge and practical skills developed over decades, intended to help you grow both professionally and personally.