Mini - MBA for Administrative Professionals

As expected, it was a very nice experience to learn with ARIVA! people. At the very first day of the seminar I have loaded with feelings of excitement and felicity that again, I had a chance to learn from them. 

Our topic is about Mini- MBA for executive assistants and administrative professionals. When I first heard this topic I made me realized that the topic would be more on how to enhance yourself as an administrative employee. But to my surprised, it wasn't focused mainly on that thing, during the very first day up to the last day I got a lot of learning more of how to handle my boss to be particular (hehe). 

I surprised that even my admirable speaker Ricky de Vera is also a blogger. He writes everything about administrative leaders, motivational words and a lot more, you can visit his blog here. 

He first identify the works of being an executive assistant from an administrative assistant. Wherein he focused mainly on their different work preferences. When we say executive assistant, the loyalty should be on the boss, while administrative should be on the management. Executive Assistant performs administrative duties particularly with their immediate superior, while administrative assistant performs administrative duties for various supervisors. 

As an administrative and executive assistant, you can build your competencies qualifications with the following:

• Knowledge on protocol, office policies or procedures
• Skills on office administration and management
• Strong background or experience on business processing and group dynamics or interactions
• Understanding of risk management and sensitivities.

Since being an assistant means that we are the alter ego of our bosses, thus we are various personnel in the organization often view us with caution. They even talk to us apprehensively, that sometime you feel that there is always a wall between them. They feel you somehow to an ambiguity. During this moment, we have to balance professional life and personal, to avoid these thoughts we can have our life after office hours. Let other knows that you are just doing your job and nothing is really personal. Practice the art of diplomacy.

Above all, more than the learning, I also got new friends. From left: Ms. Riza from Geo Estate Development Corporation and Ms. Heart from Ateneo de Manila Universiy. Cheers to both of you.

from left: Ms. Ellen from Alberto's catering and Ruben from an advertising company (sorry! I really can't remember!)