Last Chance: Recognize Those Who Help Make Your Job Easier
It's Administrative Professionals Week.
We've seen hundreds of events come and go in the community, but how often does one pass you by that you wish you hadn't missed out on? How about deadlines that creep up on you, whether it's a tax bill or registration?
That's where we come in.
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This week, we remind you that it's time to celebrate administrative professionals. Known until 2000 as Professional Secretaries Week, it's an opportunity to formally recognize administrative assistants in your life. Administrative Professionals Day is Wednesday, specifically, but surely, flowers or some other type of recognition will be appreciated any day this week.
Deborah Strafuss
5:18 pm on Monday, April 23, 2012
Now you've got me going!
The unsung heroes of the office.
They don’t make the big sales.
You don’t have to cater to their every whim to keep them on the payroll.
They are replaceable – but still, convenient to have around and not have to worry about finding a replacement for....
They are lower paid than their “high producing” sales or technician compatriots.
They do the tedious paperwork no one in their right minds would enjoy doing.
You never base your benefits program on their needs…..or your scheduling…
You pay them to do the stuff no one could pay you to do.
You’re peeved as all heck when something isn’t finished or done the way you expected it to be done.
You can’t understand why they can’t just read your mind – it’s such a bother to have to stop and explain something to them, or sign something, or finish up a loose end they want to put to rest…low priority.
They are low priority.
Like the computer server humming away in the background unnoticed, admins are the “pulse of the office”, the wheels on the cart, the crust on the pie. AT LEAST take one day - one day – to say thank you. And then – work a little harder at just knowing they are there, filling in the holes in your paperwork, recording and storing data, making connections, greeting your customers, finishing up the details of - your business. Wednesday – April 25.