Let It Pour My First Assignment as Executive Assistant
... The first notable deficit is derived from the mission statement. ... The CEO has identified the first point of improvement by acknowledging that the stakeholder group has “interesting interpretations”. ... This task must first be accomplished by the CEO and partners with the ultimate goal of stockholder buy in. ... Additionally, training sessions must be scheduled with all involved because awareness is the first step to improving compliance. ... The very fact that the CEO is placing this huge responsibility in the hands of his new executive assistant speaks volumes about the management capabilities of this CEO. In researching the duties and responsibilities of an executive assistant, I found that an executive assistant’s normal duties more resemble that of a secretary in that they answer phones, handle scheduling issues, type correspondence and in general assist senior management. The primary difference between an executive assistant and a secretary are that the executive assistant assists senior executives rather than low to mid-level managers. ... In short, Faith Community Hospital has for the last 10 years created the conditions for its own failures, which will take more than one executive assistant two weeks to both study and propose solutions to all the hospitals problems.