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Be The Indispensable Admin Assistant
By Karen Porter
The
Administrative Professional
Job Performance and Career Success Coach
Assisting Administrative Support Professionals Since 2004
You've heard about the indispensable assistant, haven't you? She's the
one whose boss raves about her (not at her) both in and out of her presence.
He's the assistant who makes the cut last, if at all, during downsizing.
It's true that sometimes the budget dictates who goes when times are lean.
But when job security is even remotely an issue, there are things you can
do, or in some cases things you shouldn't be doing, to ensure that your name
won't be first on the list of potential dismissals. And some of these things
don't even relate to hard skills, but rather your soft skills. Here are just
a few tips from some workplace consultants who work daily with people just
like you and your boss that you can use year-round to be the indispensable
assistant:
Be
positively nice.
Would you be surprised to learn that your attitude on the job might mean
more than your skills to some employers? And that attitude might even be the
pivotal point in your next promotion? It's true, says Peggy Newfield,
founder and president of Atlanta, Georgia, based PERSONAL BEST, INC., who
teaches one-day business etiquette seminars on "Power, Presence and Style"
and whose clients include Fortune 500 companies.
"In business, a negative attitude with a lot of complaining really doesn't
get very many promotions," explained Newfield (www.personalbest.net).
"CEO's have shared with me that they'd rather have an employee who has...
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