Avoiding Misunderstandings at Work With the Personal Assistant to the President - A study by Artur Victoria

One way to avoid this situation is for the boss and assistant-to to agree that within the boundaries of the assistant-to job there is a call for personal services but that there is a great deal more to it than that. There can be an optimal mix between general staff work and personal operations. One assistant-to who was interviewed had about the best learning experience there is. His boss gave him some highly important staff work to do, yet he also included the assistant-to in most of the social functions in which he, the boss, was involved. The assistant-to learned how to function effectively as a staff man and also acquired some great lessons in social interaction and decorum. Other executives saw this assistant-to at parties helping the boss to entertain, but they also saw the assistant-to as a working staff officer in the office. Thus he was not categorized as a glorified bartender, nor as simply a junior staff member. The assistant-to said that this combined social-staff experience and exposure was the major force which assisted in his career development. leia todo o artigo