Lead
How do you “see” yourself? No matter what your title, you are “CEO” in charge of You, Inc. You decide each morning how you will dress for work. You decide whether you will use your emotional intelligence to relate to those you come in contact with. You decide whether you will use your integrity throughout the day on each task or whether you will leave it outside the building on your way into work. You decide (most importantly!) what your attitude will be and that alone greatly shapes your day. You decide what you want to attain.
All this points to one fact: whether or not you realize it, YOU are a born leader. You are not a follower. You pave the way for yourself each day. And if you have children, significant others or family members in close proximity, you are shaping them, too. Ditto for any organizations, groups, volunteer, or church you are involved in!
Let’s look at today’s excerpt:
Administrative professionals and executive assistants often see themselves in their support roles as being “non-leaders.” Nothing, however, could be further from the truth!
You may not be the CEO or VP of the company, but you ARE a leader. A senior-level human resources associate once said something profound: she said it was the administrator’s job to make her job important. Each administrator in your organization needs to raise her sights to elevate the career so that she, and others who follow, can grow and become better in their skills.
HOW?
To initiate basic lead strategies:
- Inventory and create a list of potential items you are aware of and care about.
- Pick an item from your list and prepare a plan of action to change or improve it.
- Work to solve, develop, create, or prepare an improvement idea.
This small micro-climate of leadership will show you what it’s like to step out and create change under your care. You can learn a lot from this exercise that will enable you to step out more and more. You will gain resources, develop solutions, and build your confidence.
Welcome to the Who Took My Pen … Again? Annual Blog-a-thon for Administrative Professionals. If you are just tuning in, here’s the scoop! We are holding 4th Annual Blog-a-thon for the Administrative Profession. We hold this blog-a-thon each April and the goal is to make assistants aware of the resources available to them and build a community of administrative assistant and executive assistants who want to learn and grow and flourish in their career of choice! To learn more about the blog-a-thon and how you can win great prizes check out the Administrative Professional’s Blog-a-thon Page for the full message.
Hello Office Dynamics blog reader,
I recently witnessed an interesting activity between a variety of assistants at all levels. The point was to learn how to initiate purposeful conversations with your executive. The first part of the activity was to pinpoint one thing you would like your executive to start, do more of or stop doing. It was entertaining to see how some assistants couldn’t stop thinking of things they would change in their executive; others were putting more deep thought into this to really find something to change about their leader. The next step was to script out their conversation to be assertive, clear and concise with their communication with their leader. 
Jasmine gave an awesome, wonderful, challenging and thoughtful presentation. It was amazing that this was her first large-scale presentation! She challenged us to activate our unique value and invigorate our lives and careers.
