Michelle bring a lot of years direct hands-on executive mid-to-upper level Business Management & Administration experience to her Personal Life Coaching, Consulting and SoloPreneur Clients who are struggling to get focused on growing their business.
So how did Michelle choose Administrative Assisting as a career and what influenced that decision?
I did not actually choose Administrative Assisting as a career per se. To say that I chose Administrative Assisting as my career choice would be 50% correct and 50% incorrect.
You see as a young adolescent, I was influenced by shows like Knots Landing and Dallas which raised my curiosity about the corporate world. I had always admired Sue Ellen character and her ability to bounce back from adversity and abuse. I did not want to be like her but I remembered verbally setting a career and personal goal for myself that would end with me in the corporate world. Those were the years when I felt I had absolutely no control over my life, the decisions that were being made for me and the really negative impact they were having and these shows allowed me to escape into another world, even if it was for a brief moment.
Nevertheless, looking back on my life now, I have come to realize that all the professional experiences I have had and despite my laundry list of educational accomplishments, I have inadvertently followed a path that has lead me to exactly the career goal I set for myself in some sort of unstructured way, all those years ago.
I got my first start in the Administrative support field a couple months after graduating from college. My first job was at a Tax & Accounting small office-home office firm where the owner of the business taught others and myself about Tax preparation and the country’s tax laws. Thereafter, I got a part time job working as the evening shift Administrative Assistant for a small Electronics repair shop and from there I landed a job with a national Youth Center.
My role was to manage the day-to-day business operations and administration for the facility as well as get the community involved in the decisions and activities of the Center. For almost a decade before migrating to the United States and during my tenure as the Manager for the Center, my staff and I were able to successfully grow the facility’s community awareness of the facility, raise interest in its programs, create a desire to become a value adding stake holder so that they were keen on taking action to preserve the facilities for their use. During my tenure we were able to increase our presence and the participation by groups and members; source and provide training for community groups so they could be more effective in their reach and programs, as well as, build and establish very beneficial relationships with the media and corporate organizations to increase the facility’s fundraising and visibility using a lot of publicity strategies.
But deep down inside, I always knew I wanted more and that more was to own my business. Therefore, when the economy literally tanked in 2007-2008 and the opportunity came to start the process while looking for full time employment, I grabbed it. I had ample experience working in the Administrative Business Support field by that time and I had worked from home remotely for a Call Center for a year prior to starting my own business. This and the subsequent Virtual Assistant training I took prepared me to offer my years of knowledge, skills, training and experience to Clients.
I bring a facilitative teaching style to my engagement with Clients. I am known for my macro big picture view, for being deeply spiritual and a possibilities thinker who love to sift below the surface of a challenge for deeper meaning behind a problem. In so doing, I often find that what prospects think is their underlying problem, usually turn out to be the manifestation of other issue/s.
My take charge, can-do attitude, it can-be-solved systematic planning and problem-solving approach to business enhances my dynamic possibilities thinking attitude. By meeting Clients where your pain hurts the most, I have an amazing ability to listen to you lay out the administrative pains you are experiencing in your business and from there, I am able to diagnose the symptoms you present and make recommendation for a solution.
As the Founder/Owner of WorkSmart Small Business Support LLC, Michelle work directly with Personal Life Coaches, Consultants and Solo Entrepreneurs. She chose this target audience because of her own life’s journey as a victim and ultimately a survivor of 13 years of childhood sexual abuse. She has now come to a place of understanding for those events in her life because it has shaped her and the inner spiritual strength she has developed from her life’s journey thus far. Michelle plans on some day writing a book and publishing a blog about her experiences. Until such time, she will continue to work closely with Personal Life Coaches, Consultants and Solo Entrepreneurs whose desire is to grow an efficient business and whose work enlighten and heal the minds, bodies and souls of the “broken ones”.
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