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Administrative Assistant

Administrative Assistant DISC Chart

Job Summary

An administrative assistant provides administrative support to the office and serves as a liaison between employees and customers. Responsibilities include answering phone calls and emails, creating new office protocols that increase productivity, scheduling appointments and events, ordering supplies when needed, and assisting with marketing. An administrative assistant typically works at the front desk in an office.

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Personality types of a Administrative Assistant

Each letter of DISC represents polar personality types with correlating behaviors and characteristics. Learn more about their strengths and weaknesses, how they communicate, and more
D

low D - Planner

Like to take time making decisions
I

low I - Supporter

Likes to work alone
S

high S - Stabilizer

Likes consistency
C

high C - Rule Follower

Likes to follow procedures

Behavioral Qualities for a Administrative Assistant

Behavioral qualities make people naturally act in a certain way. Utilize people's natural behaviors and strengths at work.
  • Deliberate. Careful in decisions and actions.
  • Attentive. Caring for details and demands.
  • Consistent. Reliable and predictable.
  • Accurate. Insisting on quality and correctness.

Motivators for a Administrative Assistant

Motivators are values that drive people. To retain passionate employees, place people in a role that utilizes their values
  • Altruistic: A caring drive to benefit and support others. To tend to the altruistic drive, let them help others for a cause.
  • Regulatory: A drive to maintain order and the status quo. To tend to the regulatory drive, let them keep consistent systems and enforce those systems.
  • Theoretical: A drive to learn and gain new knowledge. To tend to the theoretical drive, allow them to constantly learn new processes.

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