Help me improve administratively

Post date: 2020-10-21 07:38:56

I went from a hands on service delivery role to an admin one. I'm not great at this. But I also never had the bulk of my job be reports, paperwork, organizing, project management, etc. I am not really bad at it I don't think, but I'm very mediocre. Which in my mind means bad. Help me?

I'm not great at building good working relationships with people that I just met before the pandemic sent me to virtual work. How do people do this when you only have IM, email or phone calls and you can't tell whether someone is a shoot the breeze person or not? I have social anxiety and quickly see myself as a burden that people don't want to talk to (and my current team sends very ostrasizing kinds of messages at times which doesn't help), so it's really hard to network. Any tips on networking virtually, to increase access to the informal information sharing that I'm not privy to now that I'm not in an office with people who know each other better, like each other more, etc?

I'm not great at listening well during conference calls. I am not a good auditory processor. I may have ADHD, but it isn't being treated. I don't want to be the bad guy that causes all our meetings to switch to video, but I need some way of paying attention better. I multitask, either on work or I'll play a game/doodle/shop online during calls. A lot of the material covered in calls isn't relevant to me so I zone out and often miss the bits that are.

I need a way to remember and track who is responsible for what, where to find forms, etc. I've created multiple cheat sheets for myself but forget what I have added to them. I've been in my position for almost a year and I'm ashamed of how little I'm retaining about the nuts and bolts of collaboration with other departments etc.

I'm not great at being productive on projects with no looming deadline. I've never had this problem before so maybe it's pandemic stress. How do you motivate yourself without external accountability? How do you find extra work to fill your time when there's only so many reports you can do?

My position is meant to be telework regardless of the pandemic, and for health reasons it is important to keep that structure as I have days I'm unable to work under office conditions. But I need help with having more discipline in the WFH context. Yes the pandemic is scary, and yes there are additional life stressors in my family including financial ones, but that's also part of why I need to solve this problem.

I love my position and it is far less stressful than my last one. Apparently I needed the stress to help me function at my best?

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