Press Release

CorporateSecrets-AdminPro.blogspot.com Launched

Team Leader and Administrative Professional ‘Adding Value’ Training

Published on July 20, 2009 by MrPressRelease.com (MrPressRelease.com and OfficialWire)

 

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA This site does NOT disclose ANY confidential company information whatsoever.

 

The purpose of this site is to support and motivate Administrative Professionals in their career paths and encourage employer’s to give thought to the suggestions posted here by considering questions such as: Do our Admin teams receive the support needed to motivate high efficiency levels? Do we have a strong Team Leader in place to drive ‘added value’, and create a positive, proactive approach for our teams to follow? Do your senior professionals receive valuable research data and competitive intelligence from your Admin teams?

 

Allow me to provide some details on Trish Johnson’s professional background. With over 25 years’ business experience, Trish has worked in various sectors including, personnel, real estate and professional services firms (’Big 4′), among others. While her major contributions were made in a Senior Executive and Administrative Assistant capacity, Trish has also held research, supervisory and management positions. In addition to this, she has operated her own word processing business in Calgary, Alberta.

 

Currently, Trish is dedicating her well-honed skills to building her blog and web site content and exposure, with an eye to achieving ‘Web Entrepreneur’ status over the course of the next year. While diligently working on these projects, Trish will also be pursuing consulting contracts to provide Team Leader and Administrative Professional’s ‘Adding Value’ Training.

 

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As an entrepreneurial spirit, Trish has instinctively and consistently broadened the scope of her roles, and maintained her choice to ‘go above and beyond’ the expectations and parameters of her roles. By that I mean, she has contributed to the success of the professionals she worked with by ‘thinking outside of the box’, and in so doing, provided relevant research, business development opportunities; resulting in proposal submissions, and most recently, has provided crucial ‘competitive intelligence’. This ‘added value’ was achieved while also meeting the myriad of responsibilities involved in her roles as Executive and Research Assistant within the firm.

 

When visiting her site at Corporate Secrets – Administrative Professionals, it is apparent that Trish believes that Administrative Professionals remain under-valued even today.

 

To quote Trish, “It is my belief that this can be attributed to a combination of the respective individual’s lack in taking a positive, proactive approach to their roles, and perhaps even more so, our own firms’ lack of support in encouraging career direction and growth, as well as the provision of strong leadership for this group. Part of this dilemma is as simple as having the right tools and equipment available in order to complete assigned tasks efficiently and effectively.”

 

“Unfortunately, the fact is, there remains a number of firms that still prefer their administrative staff work well within their imposed framework and expectations for these roles, as outlined in the ‘job descriptions’ provided, ‘period’.

 

Trish has found herself being both encouraged and discouraged from ‘adding value’, and on one occasion, chastised for her research and successful business development endeavours, while at the same time, asked to ‘continue her work’ under the radar.

 

As Trish puts it, “There appears to be a common ‘limited belief’ that if one, or a few individuals within the administrative group, are providing this ‘added value’, while others are not contributing, friction ‘among the pack’ will ensue. Naturally, this automatically impedes the progress that would otherwise most certainly be achieved by this worthy and intelligent group of professionals.”

 

“That is to say that without the support and encouragement of a Team Leader and the firm’s backing, it is suspect that administrative staff will perform only within their ‘job descriptions’ and little else. To my mind, this then becomes a ‘lose-lose’ proposition, versus playing win-win for the benefit of all concerned.”

 

Trish holds a very strong belief that our firms should have a strong, proactive Team Leader in place to direct, support, challenge, and encourage their administrative teams. 

 

As Trish explains, “an effective Team Leader will assist and support all members of the teams in learning, will lead by example, nurture ‘outside of the box thinking’, and create an atmosphere conducive to a positive and proactive group of individuals that will, as an end result, possess more of a ‘management mindset’, versus a ‘secretarial or subordinate mindset’. This is of huge benefit to any firm because this group would then feel that they have a ‘vested interest’ in the firm’s success, and their collective ‘voices’ heard. In my humble opinion, this would indeed be playing win-win.”