What Executive Assistants REALLY Want You To Know...

 

What Executive Assistants REALLY Want You To Know...

The most important person in the office is often not the CEO at the top of the organizational chart — it’s their executive assistant.

An executive assistant is not just answering emails and taking phone calls. EAs can also be strategic sounding boards for their boss’s ideas, and they use their administrative know-how to execute their boss’s vision.

But, “an assistant is actually a chaos tamer, a culture creator, a pulse taker. Assistants are inefficiency disruptors, strategic partners, fearless negotiators, game changers, relationship builders, time benders, operations experts.”

That’s why HuffPost asked several executive assistants to clear up misunderstandings about what they do, what it’s like to be one and how they should be considered. Here’s what executive assistants want you to know...