Promoting professionalism in secretarial profession

Abstract

The paper discusses the distinction between the professional and non-professional secretary and identifies the professional secretary as an invaluable asset to any organization. It describes the professional secretary as an indispensable assistant to the executive without whom the executive cannot function optimally. It highlights the qualities of the professional secretary and some of the executive functions. The paper stresses the need for proper secretarial training in institutions and recommends that it be made to meet both modern and global work standard. It concludes that qualitative training would remove impostors from the profession and project the right image for the practitioners.