How An Assistant Might Get You To That High Target?

The higher the position in the company, the bigger is the responsibility. You cannot just carry on with your time to time job, but have the responsibilities which need to be completed. Time then is no limit. Often people have to stay back out of their hours and complete the work. In long term, this becomes an habit. When your responsibilities rise, normally you are given a team to complete the task. You are also a part of the bigger team which has bigger role and you play your part in that organization. Normally, when you are at the top, your prime responsibility is to give directions. Giving directions is not enough at times. Because we are responsible for the bigger picture, it becomes our responsibility to see that whatever directions are given are followed through by the team members. 

Here is where an Assistant comes into picture. Depending on your job profile or responsibilities, the assistant can be anywhere between a simple graduate to a hi-fi MBA from top university. Normally, the job of the assistant is simple. It is to do the regular tasks for his boss, so that he is free and can think of bigger tasks and vision. The bigger responsibility given to the assistant is to make the minutes of the meetings and set time limits for each task and each member. This has to be followed up by regular talk with the team members to see if each task is on its line and will be done by the set time limit. This is the most important thing and it is better if an assistant is there to do this job. 

If the top boss is coming into picture each time, his value or his aura will decrease. His delegates may just not be as serious with the tasks given. But if there is one layer in the form of assistant, who is given a long rope and can ask other team members in a very friendly manner about the completion of the task. Better it is if the other team members too are senior and they also have their own assistant. This assistant can then directly get in touch with other assistants and follow up about the completion of the task. 

The main reason of not achieving target is that whatever plans are drawn, they must be executed. And it will purely depend on the execution of the job, what targets are achieved. It is a wise step to keep an assistant then. But remember that you have a big team before implying this structure.