From The Desk of The Effective Admin™

Karen Porter, The Administrative Professional

Job Performance and Career Success Coach™

and Founder and President of The Effective Admin

Assisting Administrative Support Professionals Since 2004

Learn About Setting Goals

for Administrative Assistants

and Executive Assistants

 

Dear Administrative Professional,

Do Performance Appraisal Goal Setting Sessions With Your Manager Look and Sound Like This?

 

►Are You STRUGGLING

to Write Administrative Assistant Goals Or Executive Assistant Goals?

 

►Are You all out of New Ideas for Your Admin Related Goals?

 

►Are You Feeling Frustrated About Where to Start?

 

►Are You Tired of Wasting Your Time Browsing the Web for Information and Ideas on This Topic Specific to Administrative Professionals?

"...Then Discover The Methods Your Administrative Colleagues Are Learning And Using Right Now To Set Goals On The Job And In Their Career"

 

You can get them right NOW (And start brainstorming and writing your goals in the next half hour). Read onward...

     Whether you're an administrative assistant, executive assistant or even an admin supervisor, I can teach you how to EASILY set goals for administrative professionals. With my assistance you can STOP STRESSING over this task.

     I personally wrote The Basic Guide to Goal Setting for Administrative Professionals which is a 12-page digital publication that you can download instantly and read in 15 minutes. Or listen to the mp3 format on your computer speakers and follow along in the included workbook.

WHO I AM

     My name is Karen Porter. I'm The Administrative Professional Job Performance and Career Success Coach and founder and president of The Effective Admin and the Virtual Association for Administrative Professionals. I'm also a former administrative professional who has held positions at lateral and higher levels in companies and organizations too.

 

     I advise administrative professionals about their job performance and career management, providing tips and guidance.

   

     The Basic Guide to Goal Setting for Administrative Professionals is one of my downloadable informational publications for administrative professionals. You get it free, along with a lot of other resources for admins, when you join the Virtual Association for Administrative Professionals (VAAP).

 

     You can do so here:

CLICK HERE for complete details on VAAP membership benefits.

 

     As a former admin myself, I know the confusion and difficulty you encounter trying to set administrative professional goals. I was once in your shoes -- and only wish that back then I had a resource, or mentor, to make this goal-setting task easier.

 

     I didn't!

 

     But now you do; I've created this guide to help you set your goals as an administrative professional. It's a resource you can use immediately because it's instantly downloadable.

 

     So if your goals are due to your boss tomorrow, relax -- you can start working on them in the next five minutes.

 

     Even if you're writing admin job and career goals for yourself and not your boss, you'll find this goal setting guide for administrative professionals useful.

 

    But let's be clear: This publication won't write your goals for you. And it will not provide you goals that you just copy and transfer to your performance appraisal (or wherever you're writing them). What it will do is assist you with brainstorming goals and add clarity to the process of goal setting as an administrative professional.

 

     There are no one size fits all goals for administrative professionals. Every admin job in every department in every company does differ and each administrative professional should have different workplace goals. (Don't let anyone tell you that all administrative professionals essentially do the same thing and thus should share the same goals. That's not true!)

 

HOW I CAN HELP YOU

WRITE GOALS NOW

     My goal-setting guide is easy to understand. This easy to follow guide lays out a step-by-step process for administrative assistants or executive assistants to set goals. It's a springboard that will help you to brainstorm your own personalized goals in your workplace. This is all accomplished with simple definitions, guidelines and even admin-specific examples.

 

ARE YOU LOST?  

     If you're lost with no clue how to start writing goals to put on your performance appraisal, start with this goal-setting guide.

 

     If your boss is asking you to set goals and you have no idea what he or she is talking about, start here.

 

     If you've been writing goals for your performance evaluations for years until you can't think of one more thing to write, start with this guide. It'll help to rejuvenate your brain so you start spitting out more ideas for goals than you've had in a long, long time.

 

WHAT YOUR ADMIN PEERS SAY ABOUT THE GOAL-SETTING GUIDE

 

The goal-setting guide doesn't work for every administrative professional -- because every admin thinks differently -- but most admin professional clients who use it find it useful. I know because they tell me so. Give it a try if you're struggling to set performance or personal work-related goals. Here's what some of your administrative professional colleagues wrote me about this goal-setting guide for administrative professionals.

 

"Your goals setting publication allowed me to think of my goals from a completely different perspective and [this] was the first time in 20 years that I have not stressed over my annual review. I was prepared for it and in fact, looked forward to it." Judy Santiago Executive Assistant San Antonio, Texas

 

"Great tool! I purchased the workbook due to the fact I am with a new company and was asked to write goals for 2009. I haven't written professional goals in a while and wanted to be sure I was writing w/some guidance." Nancy Executive Assistant Akron OH

 

"I purchased Goal Setting for Administrative Professionals because I can use some help in setting my professional goals. I’ve been an assistant for over 25 years, but I don’t want to feel like I’m too set in my ways. A little assistance in looking at things from another perspective never hurts. [The sections about] The Questions that Inspire Goal-Setting and the Specific Professional Goals were very helpful in providing a new viewpoint to approaching goal-setting. I think you’ve done a great job of providing a variety of information needed by today’s administrative professionals."   Cathey Kuhn Sr. Administrative Assistant Marietta, GA

 

"I purchased the Admin Goal setting to better improve my own personal/professional goals. It is helping me think outside the box and giving me more ideas. [The section about] Specific Administrative Professional Goals is helping me add more responsibilities to my current duties, by way of goal setting." Stephanie Cole Administrative Assistant Coppell, TX

 

"I purchased this product because I was preparing for my yearly evaluation at work, and I was having difficulty determining new goals and objectives. The information I received was very helpful and I was able to identify the objectives and goals that I want in my current position.   I thought it was very well written and very easy to understand and comprehend. It gave me insight into things that I hadn't considered before, [especially the section about] 7 Things You Need to Know in Order to Set Professional Goals at Work" Jackie Brantley Administrative Assistant Nashville, TN

 

"The Basic Guide To Goal Setting For Administrative Professionals was a lifesaver. It helped me set realistic and clearly defined goals. ...My manager asked me to set goals and objectives for the year. The tips helped me to give careful consideration of setting a goal and trying to reach a measure that is reasonable yet challenging. I was able to include the training or developmental initiatives that I felt would assist in my personal development. I was so proud of how I lined the goals up with the corporate and division goals/vision." Audrey G. Nesbit Administrative Assistant Columbia, South Carolina

 

"I bought [The Basic Guide to Goal Setting] because I was doing my annual review and needed some wording on my goals! The product was great - exactly what I needed." Debbie Heckler Sales Office Manager Austin, TX

 

"I purchased your information on goals for executive assistants and found it to be very helpful. My boss asked me to brainstorm goals for myself to be discussed at my annual performance appraisal. It is difficult to develop goals as a person in a supportive role with no 'portfolio' of my own. I found the product to be very useful - the information helped me to create some meaningful goals that I think will allow me to contribute to the overall success of my organization." Tracy Bond Senior Administrative Assistant Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA

 

"I thought the information on goal setting and performance review was fantastic. It was of great help to me. The tips were usable in my workplace." Cheryl Himburg Administrative Assistant Kitchener, Ontario Canada     "I loved this! I found it to be very helpful. Especially the 7 Things You need to know in order to set professional goals at work. That helped me begin thinking on the right track." Jaclyn Mattson Administrative Support Assistant III Chico, CA     "The goal setting article was fantastic. I was able to set some personal goals with my boss for the upcoming year. The goals were ones that I was able to think about and come up with, then present them to my boss. They are inline with our company vision and what my boss has set for her own goals." Adera Administrative Secretary San Diego, CA     "I purchased the Goal Setting materials to help me with writing my individual development plan for work. In the Basic Guide to Goal Setting, the section on types of goals was very helpful. It stimulated my thinking about what I could consider as goals. The Results vs. Activities section was informative. I really thought the whole document was very well put together. It was just the right amount of information." Renee Thomsen Executive Admin Irvine, CA

 

    This goal setting guide for administrative professionals is Tip Sheet #5 in The Effective Admin Tip Sheet Series in the membership benefits package at the link below. You may download it immediately and start learning how to set goals on the job, in your performance appraisal, and in your career in the next five minutes.

 

CLICK HERE for complete details on VAAP membership benefits.

 

START SETTING ADMIN GOALS TODAY

 

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You CAN learn to set administrative assistant goals or executive assistant goals today with these printable and audio self-study materials from The Effective Admin. Stop stressing about goal setting for administrative professionals and start setting goals today with the help of this guide.