Employers look for employees who are productive.  Productivity is different from being busy or even as completing all the day’s tasks.  Productivity is not just a matter of quantity of work you do but also of the quality – not just how much you do but how well you do it.

As an Administrative Professional, your role is to support your superior and others to ensure that the office runs smoothly.  You need to become skilled at setting priorities, completing the most important tasks first, always meeting deadlines and refocusing on a task after an interruption.  All these skills take planning and effort.

You need to develop strategies for avoiding procrastination.  Putting off tasks you dislike can lead to a crisis or missed deadline that can cause problems for the people you support.

You need to learn to track multiple projects to make sure you are on schedule and to follow up to ensure tasks are completed correctly.