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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1981
Local / State
New secretaries learn skills at clerical workshop De
By LAURA YOUNG
Battalion Reporter
The job of a secretary is more
than typing, filing and fixing, as
Dolly Parton sings, “a cup of ambi
tion” for her boss.
, It involves knowing her job,
and
her co-workers, her boss
especially her environment.
Several new secretaries at
Texas A&M University had the
chance to learn more about their
environment and brush up on
office skills at the Basic Secretarial
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and Clerical Workshop held
March 25-26 in Rudder Tower.
The workshop is one of the Per
sonnel Departments employee
development training programs.
The department sponsors a total of
11 workshops for Texas A&M em
ployees designed to provide em-
, ployee training assistance.
The secretarial workshop pro
vides an introduction to Texas
A&M for new secretaries and also
covers basic secretarial and cleric-
| al skills.
“You need to be able to see the
large picture as well as the small
[picture,” Nancy Gustke, training
specialist in the personnel depart
ment, said.
Gustke conducts the secretarial
workshop once a month along with
another workshop on office proce
dures.
Gustke said the secretarial
workshop has been going on for
quite a few years here at Texas
A&M and they’re almost always
booked up.
“We usually try to limit the
workshops,” Gustke said.
“They’re all open to anybody who
wants to come but they get filled
up fast.”
Such things as Aggie traditions,
library services, recreational faci
lities, entertainment, sports
events, MSC craft classes and
Free University were explained.
Secretarial basics such as tele
phone courtesies and methods,
taking messages, campus mail and
organization were also discussed.
“Lots of things are covered at
those workshops and you always
figure if there’s one or two things
you can take back, that’s some
thing that you didn’t have before,”
Gustke said.
Gustke also listed twelve ways
to start out right on a new job, a list
taken from Glamour magazine:
— Don’t gossip about history,
— Concentrate on discovering
your boss’s priorities,
— Accept your boss’s manage
rial system,
— Don’t have special expecta
tions for a woman boss,
— Make your boss look good,
— Don’t expect this job to du
plicate your old job,
— Listen and watch,
— Ask questions,
— Get the boss to arrange
training for you,
— Avoid past mistakes,
— Don’t be taken in by first
impressions,
— Be optimistic and go out of
your way to express that positive
attitude.
Gustke explained that com
munication is a vital part of a good
secretary-boss relationship.
“A lot of negative things can
happen in your office because of
lack of communication," Gustke
said.
Gustke said the purpose of the
secretarial workshop is to provide
information about Texas A&M to
new employees.
“They’re mostly to give new
people ... an idea of things that are
... peculiar to Texas A&M Univer
sity,” Gustke said. “Even if they
worked at another university,
they do things here that are diffe
rent.”
The workshop also provides, to
those who are new to being secre-
United
taries, a chance to learaim::
out the job.
The personnel departs:
also beginning two new ;■
shops, Positive Discipline J
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surance Claim. i' HOI T V
“The Positive Disciplines;- . i '
shop is for managers if they lij ni ht p J 0]
ha -V d,scl P I, " ar y (1 « of troubled
with their employees, « th
said. “Its so theylllearnb ^^
do it the right wav. T when t j
Gustke said, “Not all®( annual exti
ties have as an extensive I® joined b;
program as we have here Reagan, w
“Some private companie|Pj as a
some kind of internal trainiip m dustry
some of them will just paylafl “ , ' r
emnlovees to take traininem P res identii
employees tot
their company.” KBscar cere
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Battalion Reporter
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