Proactivity: How a Personal Angel uses intuition and imagination to anticipate customer needs
Editorial Alberta La Grup | Author: María José Núñez | May 2023
A Personal Angel must possess intuition and imagination, which are the main skills required to be able to anticipate the client’s needs before they are even aware of them. In other words, nothing is left to chance.
That is precisely what proactivity is. Having a proactive attitude and actively taking control is what it’s all about.
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses”
(George Eliot)
It may be a word that has been overused in the workplace in recent years, but it is a word that encourages an attitude that is always required, especially in the most creative professions: doing things without being told. Quite simply, to be fully aware of what our objectives are, and in the case of lifestyle management, to carry them out with skill, delicacy, excellence and efficiency; being our top of the class for our client, and foreseeing what is going through their mind without even knowing what they need, require or what makes them happy.
Could we say proactivity one of the keys to being a Personal Angel? Yes, and beyond that, it may be what truly defines what it means to be a good personal assistant. Our job is not just about taking action, but also everything that goes before it: confidence, determination, experience, client knowledge, exquisite instinct and a keen eye for detail. It is very simple and complex at the same time… Or as the writer Mario Benedetti said: “I like people who vibrate, who don’t have to be pushed, who don’t have to be told to do things, but who know what needs to be done and do it”. That’s how we are… And that’s how we help others to fly.
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