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SECRETARIES and personal assistants should be creative and results oriented and transform themselves into unique brands to canoe their respective organisations to greater heights. Speaking as a guest speaker at a two-day administrative convention held at Troutberk Hotel in the mountainous and serene district of Nyanga last week, Milestone Group of schools proprietor and Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce 2014 entrepreneur of the year National runner-up, Mrs Tsitsi Mupfunya, said sensitivity, evaluation, responsibility, exclusiveness, articulation were critical attributes in the administrative profession.
More than 30 secretaries and personal assistants from several organisations in Manicaland and Masvingo provinces attended the fun-filled annual refresher course.
“Administrative professionals require philanthropists, people who are willing to listen compassionately to anyone whom they come in contact with.
“Secretaries need to appreciate and consider feelings of fellow workmates in an organisation. You need to be sensitive. You should evaluate whatever you do, why you are doing it and who you want to serve. For a unique brand you need to be creative and being creative is your responsibility.
“Your responsibility for exclusivity will raise the flag of the organisation. Time management will bring desired results.
“Be articulate and result oriented since you are the yardstick of the organisation. Do tasks that matter, refuse to be fascinated by imagination but instead be engulfed with vision, virtue and purpose for action and diligent work,” said Mrs Mupfunya.
Among other activities, the secretaries engaged into several interactive activities such as sport, site seeing, casino and musical bash.
Motivational speaker and a pastor with PAOZ Victory Tabernacle Assembly, Pastor Humphrey Chigumira, who was the main presenter urged secretaries to drift from comfort zone and “climb the ladder of success in life” by improving curriculum vitae while improving the image of an organisation.
“One way to guarantee your escape from the valley trap of life is through improving one’s curriculum vitae through both formal and informal learning. People are like rubber bands, they are useful when one stretches them.
“According to one thinker, Henry Ford, the best way to predict the future is to create one. We should continue to learn to improve who we are as well as the image of the organisation. Learning is a continuous process from womb to tomb.
“Live fruitful and fulfilling lives at home, workplace and beyond. A happy worker is a productive worker and the opposite is true.
“The production being spoken of applies at home, workplace and in life. No man is an island. None is independent of others. We are as good as those connected to us,” Pastor Chigumira said.
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