£29 including VAT
The EA Career Progression Blueprint
Choose a direction that suits you, then build the evidence and experience to move towards it.
Career progression can feel uncertain when your responsibilities have expanded but your job title has not. This guide helps you decide what progression means for you, test the opportunities available in your organisation and build a credible route towards the next stage of your career.
In short: a coaching guide and workbook for EAs and PAs deciding what comes next in their career, covering how to define progression for yourself, audit the role you actually perform, identify the gap, make a progression proposal and turn development into career evidence. Five coaching stages, 14 guided prompts and 38 fill-in spaces, as an online workbook and a 29-page PDF, for £29 including VAT.
What this guide will help you achieve
You can be exceptionally good at being an EA and still have no idea what you want to do next. I see this more often than people realise. The danger is assuming that progression must mean Chief of Staff, a bigger title or managing a team, simply because those are the options people talk about. Your next step needs to make sense for you, your strengths and the life you want outside work.
How the guide works
Five coaching stages, each with practical next moves, 14 guided coaching prompts and 38 fill-in spaces you can complete online or in print. Every stage ends with what to do next, and the guide closes with a conversation you can practise, a note on what to do when it does not go to plan and your own 30, 60 and 90 day route.
- Stage 1: Define progression for yourself
- Stage 2: Audit the role you actually perform
- Stage 3: Identify the gap without making it personal
- Stage 4: Make a progression proposal
- Stage 5: Turn development into career evidence
Who it is for
- An experienced EA or PA who feels ready for more but cannot yet name what more looks like.
- Anyone weighing up Chief of Staff, EA leadership, a broader business role or a bigger version of the role they already have.
- An assistant who wants a progression proposal to take to their organisation rather than a vague ambition.
What you get
The interactive online workbook, which saves your answers on your own device, and the same guide as a 29-page PDF to print and write in. Both are yours straight after payment and are emailed to you as well. £29 including VAT.
This is guide 02 of 12 in The eavolve Coaching Guides, and it is also included in the Know Your Worth bundle with The EA Salary Negotiation Toolkit and The EA Performance Review Preparation Kit for £39.
Questions before you buy
More than most people are told. Progression can mean a bigger version of the role you have, a move to a more senior principal, Chief of Staff, EA leadership, a broader business role or specialising in one part of what you already do. The EA Career Progression Blueprint helps you define progression for yourself first, audit the role you actually perform, identify the gap and make a proposal, rather than assuming the next step has to be a bigger title.
Not necessarily, and a title alone rarely changes much. A credible progression proposal describes the work you want to take on, the evidence that you can do it and what the organisation gains, and a title can follow from that. The guide shows you how to turn development and expanded responsibility into career evidence.
Each guide comes two ways. The interactive online workbook opens in your browser, saves your answers on your own device as you go and can be printed or saved as a PDF at any point. The same guide is also supplied as a 28-page PDF if you would rather print it and write by hand. Both are yours straight after payment, and the links are emailed to you as well.
Payment is taken by Stripe. As soon as it goes through you are taken to your download page, where every guide you have bought is listed, and the same links are emailed to the address you used at checkout. If anything goes wrong, email emily@eavolve.co.uk and we will send the guide directly.
No. It is a coaching guide and workbook built around one challenge, written so it feels as though your eavolve coach is sitting alongside you. You work through five stages at your own pace, with practical next moves at the end of each one, and you can come back to it as the conversation comes round again.
Yes. Stripe sends a receipt that includes VAT, which most organisations accept for expenses. If you need a formal invoice, email emily@eavolve.co.uk before you buy. The Business Case for EA Development guide walks through how to ask for development funding if that is the conversation you are facing.
Every guide points to the next step if you want one. One-to-one coaching with Emily or Lily goes deeper on your own situation, and a free 30-minute discovery call is the place to work out whether that would help. Prices for coaching are on the EA & PA Coaching page.
