9.8. What’s My Role?
The Office Administrator’s Role
As an administrative professional, you might not be the one setting official document retention policies—but you will make sure things don’t fall through the cracks.
Your role is to:
Your role is to:
- Create or maintain a system that works for your team.
- Encourage consistent naming and storage habits.
- Use technology to keep files organized, shared, and secure.
- Ask questions when a system isn’t working.
- Keep learning—different industries and offices will have different needs.
Whether you’re working on a team event or supporting a busy executive, good document-storing habits help everyone stay on track. Your system doesn’t have to be perfect, but it has to work for you and be easy to maintain.
