Professional Accountability: Meet Deadlines
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I operate in a deadline-centered world. When I have to submit articles for publication in a trade journal. . . I have to meet a deadline or I will miss that entire month’s issue. To run an ad in a particular month whether hard copy or soft copy, we have to meet a deadline or weare booted out for that month which may be critical to growing our business or enlightening our customers. We just released a new book, called Who Took My Pen ... Again?The entire creative and writing team worked on massive, intense target deadlines so we could get that book out in time for Administrative Professionals Week gifts. I am working on another book (top secret) to be released September 1; once again, I am on a strict time line.
How do we be accountable in meeting deadlines when we realistically can’t add any more hours to our day? Here is some insight.
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Meet Deadlines
Do you communicate about deadlines clearly at the very beginning of a project? Do you ask questions when you’re given a project to separate the “real deadline” from the “desired deadline”?
The cemeteries of deceased accountability are strewn with missed deadlines. Many people in the workforce have fallen down in this area, destroying their ability to succeed.
Simply put, you have to stand and deliver. You have to deliver the goods. You must come to the table of business, willing to communicate honestly and holistically. Making your deadline is all about working with passion and honesty.
Yes, there will be times that they really do need it when they say they do, and it’s impossibly tight. That is when you will need to “pull a rabbit out of your hat,” digging deep and getting resources from wherever necessary to get it done anyway.
On the other hand, “pulling a rabbit out of the hat” takes a huge amount of adrenaline, and you don’t want to work that way every day, all day. This is why it’s so important to work with your executives and managers to communicate about lead-time, administrative processing time, actual deadlines, etc., so you can help each other with real time, real world awareness. You need to know when they “really, really do” need it this very moment, and when “it would be great to have.”
But make no mistake about it: you must deliver the goods, bottom line, to build a strong reputation. You can look professional, you can talk a good game, but at the end of the day, did you deliver? That’s what they’ll remember about you.
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Setting Healthy Boundaries at Work
- By Joan Burge
About the Author: Joan Burge
RSS for Joan's articles - Visit Joan's website
Joan Burge has been a visionary for administrative training and development since 1990. One of the first to venture into the administrative training industry, she has become an international administrative expert, trainer, author, and consultant. Joan Burge equips administrative professionals to move beyond task work to higher-level functions that meet the ever-changing demands of todays workplace. Best known for her highly-acclaimed Star Achievement Series®, a 12-part Certification and Designation training program designed to promote Star Performance among administrative, support and front-line staff. She is the creator and host of the Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence, the World Class Assistant Certificate program, and more than 40 customized workshops and seminars for administrative professionals.
Joan's most recent work Who Took My Pen ... Again? (2012 Burge, Fraze, Freeman) joins her many other groundbreaking books for the administrative profession which include Underneath It All; Postgraduate Level Revelations Lift Administrative Assistants to New Heights, Become an Inner Circle Assistant, 3 other books and 15 workbooks. She is the editor of Monday Motivators weekly e-zine and has been published in more than 100 trade journals. With her passion to fill a niche in the administrative education arena, she continually explores what is necessary to excel in that position.
Before starting Office Dynamics International, Joan was an administrative professional for 20 years in 12 different companies in 5 states. She worked her way up from receptionist to assisting CEOs, serving in a variety of industries ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies.
Click here to visit Joan's website.
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The cemeteries of deceased accountability are strewn with missed deadlines. Many people in the workforce have fallen down in this area, destroying their ability to succeed.
Simply put, you have to stand and deliver. You have to deliver the goods. You must come to the table of business, willing to communicate honestly and holistically. Making your deadline is all about working with passion and honesty.
Yes, there will be times that they really do need it when they say they do, and it’s impossibly tight. That is when you will need to “pull a rabbit out of your hat,” digging deep and getting resources from wherever necessary to get it done anyway.
On the other hand, “pulling a rabbit out of the hat” takes a huge amount of adrenaline, and you don’t want to work that way every day, all day. This is why it’s so important to work with your executives and managers to communicate about lead-time, administrative processing time, actual deadlines, etc., so you can help each other with real time, real world awareness. You need to know when they “really, really do” need it this very moment, and when “it would be great to have.”
But make no mistake about it: you must deliver the goods, bottom line, to build a strong reputation. You can look professional, you can talk a good game, but at the end of the day, did you deliver? That’s what they’ll remember about you.
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Free PDF Download Setting Healthy Boundaries at Work - By Joan Burge |
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About the Author: Joan Burge Joan Burge has been a visionary for administrative training and development since 1990. One of the first to venture into the administrative training industry, she has become an international administrative expert, trainer, author, and consultant. Joan Burge equips administrative professionals to move beyond task work to higher-level functions that meet the ever-changing demands of todays workplace. Best known for her highly-acclaimed Star Achievement Series®, a 12-part Certification and Designation training program designed to promote Star Performance among administrative, support and front-line staff. She is the creator and host of the Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence, the World Class Assistant Certificate program, and more than 40 customized workshops and seminars for administrative professionals. Joan's most recent work Who Took My Pen ... Again? (2012 Burge, Fraze, Freeman) joins her many other groundbreaking books for the administrative profession which include Underneath It All; Postgraduate Level Revelations Lift Administrative Assistants to New Heights, Become an Inner Circle Assistant, 3 other books and 15 workbooks. She is the editor of Monday Motivators weekly e-zine and has been published in more than 100 trade journals. With her passion to fill a niche in the administrative education arena, she continually explores what is necessary to excel in that position. Before starting Office Dynamics International, Joan was an administrative professional for 20 years in 12 different companies in 5 states. She worked her way up from receptionist to assisting CEOs, serving in a variety of industries ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. Click here to visit Joan's website. Adminology The White Paper |
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