By Karen Porter

Administrative professionals mingle with opportunity more often than realized. Do you see it? There are opportunities around you that can bring you good career and life experiences you didn’t even know you wanted yet.

Opportunity can sometimes bring you good things such as interesting assignments, new roles, higher salaries, and increased credibility and value to your organization. Often, you can’t anticipate opportunity. After all, look at the definition of opportunity; it’s all about chance and circumstances.

However, when opportunity happens, you can capitalize on it. Or perhaps you simply say “yes” to something without realizing you’re capitalizing on opportunity, but you do this because you’ve learned to say “yes,” or at least “tell me more,” rather than a quick, involuntary “no.”

Be confident and learn to embrace opportunity, even when it’s symbolic of the scary unknown. Opportunity can mean growth for you personally and professionally and increased job satisfaction, job knowledge and more.

For example, the employee introducing…

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