How working with a VA can increase your productivity.
Do you ever feel like you’re drowning in work but not making any real progress towards your broader objectives? If so, read on. This blog will relay how a VA can assist you in overcoming this, helping you to get back on track and improve your productivity.
The bigger picture
A Global Productivity Study found that professionals spend an average of 69 working days a year on administrative tasks alone. This has a considerable impact on productivity. However, if these non-core business tasks were outsourced, then professionals would be able to spend more time on the higher-value, strategic activities.
“Once you find a VA you can trust wholeheartedly, you will never look back”.
Conversations frequently centre on the importance of improving productivity levels in the workplace. Still, you hear little talk of freeing busy professionals of their administrative tasks - something which impacts on productivity levels. With the help of a VA, this can change.
Why should you consider a VA?
Take a moment to think of the five weekly tasks that drain your time. Do any of these feature…responding to emails? Managing your diary? Scheduling social media posts? Creating invoices? Now take a moment to imagine how you would feel if these five tasks were solely managed by someone else with peace of mind that they would be completed to the very highest standard. For many, it may not feel like a justified expense to hire a VA but when you consider the amount of time you will save - it is invaluable, leaving many professionals wishing they’d looked into hiring a VA years ago.
So how can a VA boost your productivity?
A VA can help you with a whole range of tasks - ranging from administrative work to uploading posts to Instagram. In short, a VA will help you do what you do best - your core business activities whilst freeing you of the additional, routine tasks that keep you from the work you love, and the work that is far more critical to your business. VAs are highly skilled in what we do - meaning there will be no need to invest time and resources in training us up. A VA can hit the ground running and start working on the task immediately.
A VA will help you manage a cluttered mailbox, triaging your emails so that you don’t have to spend time going through mountains of correspondence, all the while knowing that you’ll never miss an important email again. The result? A clearer inbox and a clearer mind. Moreover, outsourcing your diary and travel management will ensure you never miss a meeting again.
A VA will streamline your processes and systems to help you understand what and how to delegate. We will work in partnership with you to support your goals and priorities so that any support time is focused on the most impactful activities.
An active social media platform is vital for successful marketing and engaging with your audience. This is a round the clock job, one in which can be delegated to a VA who will promote your brand and engage with your customers and prospective clients to grow your business.
The hardest part?
It’s letting go and accepting that you don’t have to do it all by yourself. Once you overcome this mindset, you begin to see the enormous impact a VA can have on your working week and your business at large. Trust comes with time, but once you find a VA you can trust wholeheartedly, you will never look back. For the first time, you can focus on the broader strategic activities that add real value to your company. It is ultimately the professionals that understand they don’t have to do it all alone that are able to develop and grow their business in the long run.
If you’re ready to make your life easier and are keen to explore this further, contact us at: info@librava.co.uk - we’d be happy to see whether we might be the right fit for you.