Last week was a trying week for all of us at Office Dynamics. I swear the computer gremlins were at work on all of our computers. It started on a Tuesday and continued for 4 days. One major event was our office Internet was down. Now you have to keep in mind, that we are a small business so we don’t have some big IT department we can pick up the phone and get immediate help from. I won’t go into the entire story but needless to say, it made for a crazy week.
On top of that, we had administrative assistants in town attending my World Class Assistant Part 1 class for 3 days. Several other little crazy/bizarre things were happening the entire week.
What we learned was we don’t always have control over situations. No matter how hard we tried to “fix it” or get others to help solve the problem, it was going at its own pace. Thank goodness Jasmine Freeman, Chief Executive Assistant, has a great attitude and knows how to go with the flow. She just worked around the situation and found creative ways to get her job done. We all had to adapt and smile.
I hope you can find more times to laugh or smile when things aren’t going the way you need them to or had hoped.
What are some of the techniques you use when you have to swim upstream?