Working With A Virtual Assistant
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3 Simple Ways to motivate your team
A motivated team is an inspired and productive team. However, not all managers know how to effectively motivate a team to do well. For some, motivation looks more like dictatorship, whilst others lock themselves away, in the hopes that a team left to their own devices...
Why personality plays a part in building the perfect team
Personality plays an important part in the initial creation and ongoing capabilities of a team. Both new and existing teams need a good mix of different team members, if they’re to work well together. Most of the teams that fail, do so because personality differences...
10 tasks to outsource to your PA now!
A virtual Personal Assistant (or PA), can help you and your business become more efficient and organised. However, this can only happen, if you start outsourcing tasks to them! Many new Executives and entrepreneurs, especially when they’re just starting out or are new...
How to build trust in your Personal Assistant
Trust, it isn’t something that is immediately present, when you first hire a Personal Assistant. However, it IS a crucial component in the business relationship between an Executive and their Personal Assistant. But how can you build trust with a Personal Assistant -...
Streamline Your Online Filing
Why is what you call and where you store an electronic files so important? I don’t know about you but when someone asks me for an electronic file that was created, whether it was only yesterday or some months ago, it really does reconfirm efficiency when you are able...
Ground Rules to Assist with Managing Emails
Following on from ‘6 Simple Ways to get Organised’ over the next few weeks, I want to share with you my best productivity tips on managing emails, using your diary effectively, organising your paper files plus electronically storing your documents. So, this post is...
6 Simple Ways to get Organised (Part 2)
Welcome back to Part 2 of '6 simple ways to get organised' 4. Eliminate the clutter I’m definitely allergic to clutter. In my mind, everything has a home and in its home it must be. Minimalistic is great! Organised is even better! If you can, aim to clear your desk...
6 Simple Ways to get Organised (Part 1)
To many people being organised comes naturally and yet to others ‘natural’ could not be further from the truth. Personally, I love to be organised and believe I'm a bit of natural, as every corner of my life, not just at work is organised - it's in my make up! Do you...
Invest time to plan your route
I don’t know about you, but one thing I find invaluable when it comes to moving things forward is having a plan, a map if you like, which sets out both career ambitions and personal aspirations. With a plan firmly in place, you know exactly where you are heading and...
If I can do it, anyone with ambition can……5 years on!
Today, my first ever blog! The first of many I hope...just a little about me and my story. 1st February marks a red-letter event. On this day five years ago, I began a new life as a single parent, I was fully aware that my future prosperity lay in my hands and in...