OPTIMIZATION
This week, I would like to encourage you to fully utilise your talents.
Optimization is like administrative skills and attitudes on steroids (in a good way). Optimization means to enhance the effectiveness of something; to make something function at its best.
How many times in the past 15 years have you updated you? How many enhancements have you made to yourself? 1? 5? 15? Are you constantly optimizing you? I know far too many assistants who have been in the administrative profession for 20+ years and have hardly changed. If this is you, it's time to wake up! You are not being all you are capable of being. We are all here to become better ... to contribute to the greater good ... we are not designed to be stagnant, vanilla, boring or lazy.
For those new to the profession ... great! You are young enough or novice enough to establish 'success' behaviours. You are like the seed of a tree that is newly planted. How you grow ... how tall you grow ... how strong you grow ... is up to you. Make sure you stay away from bad soil. Don't be influenced by people who might be negative about the office profession. This profession is fabulous and rewarding. It is interesting, challenging, fun and offers you great opportunities. Make sure you fertilize your thinking so you can grow and then occasionally apply 'booster fertilizer' (this is turbo-charged fertilizer) - meaning OPTIMIZE yourself and everything you do.
When you fully utilize all your talents and capacities, your leader will function at his or her best because they will be able to focus on the work they do that brings value to the company and impacts the bottom line. And one of the greatest gifts to yourself is that you will be a more joyous and fulfilled individual which will spread to other aspects of your life.
You need to embrace the idea of 'optimization' to be successful in the future and to illuminate your career. Are you moving yourself to your very best potential? Are you fully engaged? Do you push through difficult tasks and assignments that you normally don't like? Have you booked training this year that advance your skills?
