The Executive Assistant
Being an Executive Assistant is more than just a title. When you get to this level it is expected you will take on leadership responsibilities. I am in an Administrative Assistant role again and am really enjoying it, but having just finished my career as an Executive Assistant, I am appreciating the work that they do. Now that I am looking at it from an Administrative Assistant's perspective, I see the EA role as being someone to look up to and seek guidance from. It should be someone who has experience and knows their way around an office. The person should also have initiative and be an ideas person. When I was an EA I loved coming up with new ideas, but I also had to listen to what others on the team thought because together we came up with the best ideas. Some things that an EA can do to show leadership: chairing (or starting) an admin team planning for and organizing a schedule for replacements when other administrative staff are away organizing educational events for th