The PPA course has been certified for 12 hours of continuing

education by the Georgia Real Estate Commission for licensed

personal assistants. Prudential Georgia Realty is offering the

designation to both licensed and unlicensed assistants. The PPA

is designed to help assistants with an overview of the real estate

business, office organization, implementing systems, technology,

team building, and scripting.

"Successful Realtors often don't have the time to train

their assistants in the many aspects of the real estate business.

We wanted to help with this training and one of our goals for

this year was to develop such a program for assistants," explained

Prudential Georgia Realty Senior Vice President Toni McGowan. "The

PPA designation will help Realtors increase their business, improve

customer service and have a better quality of life because their

assistant will be capable of sharing duties and responsibilities."

The first PPA class was held June 22-23 and 16 assistants graduated

from the program: three buyer's agents, three licensed assistants

and 10 unlicensed assistants.

Company Training Director DeAnn Spivey summed up the first program

Personal Assistants possess was evident throughout our two-day

course. It was a valuable time for them to network with one another,

exchange ideas and make action plans to take