PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GOALS: AN AID TO BEING CAPACITATED AT WORK
Arnie B. Mendoza
As a professional, specifically being an administrative assistant, your ultimate goal is to continuously improve yourself personally and professionally for career advancements.
This goal sets up the exceptional qualities that an administrative assistant may possess that are of use for excellent job performances.
Apparently, personal qualities such as a positive and caring attitude, fairness and respect for colleagues, enthusiasm, commitment and dedication for work significantly influence others to be excellent also for work. As such, self-improvement is as important as professional improvement as this reflects of your quality as an employee. Hence, this personal development goals can make you capacitated at work.
On the other hand, on professional development, a notable administrative assistant must does his/her work excellently. In order to do this, one must have professional development goals to work on such as acquiring additional degrees to elevate his/her professional skills.
Capturing the essentialities of the personal and professional development goals are equally important as this can be an aid to being capacitated at work. As such, both personal and professional characteristics of administrative assistant should be well-defined and well-illustrated as they perform their function in their workplace. Hence, their exceptional personal and professional attributes and development portray their expertise in their profession and certainly define them as reputable professionals as well.
As a whole, being capacitated at work makes you exceptional at work and an exceptional worker. Thus, this is achieved thru personal and professional development goals that you set up for yourself.
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The author is Administrative Assistant - II (ADAS-II) at Lubao North District,
Division of Pampanga