Using a virtual assistant (VA) can save you hours throughout your working week, but knowing which tasks to delegate can be challenging. Whilst virtual assistants often focus on administrative tasks, similar to those of an in-office executive assistant, increasingly our professional VAs are taking on various other functions to help businesses grow and improve.

It’s likely that you’ve spent a number of years building up a company culture of trust, honesty, open communications, and fun. The last thing you want to happen is for this to become lost in the remote working world we find ourselves living in.

In times of great economic uncertainty, the future for small business owners, who are seeing their sales and profits plummeting, may appear bleak. Unfortunately, there’s no magic wand or secret strategy to staying afloat, but there are things you can put into motion to help steer your company through such uncharted territory.

Both personal and business success is based on your ability as a leader. For some of us, it might come naturally, but for the rest of us, we become great leaders by adopting a certain mindset and way of doing things.

Many entrepreneurs have become accustomed to multi-tasking and rattling through an ever-growing to-do list in order to get things done for their business. It might not make economic sense to take on new members of full-time or even part-time staff and so more companies than ever are leaning on outsourcing to fill the gaps in their business.

If you’re working from home, healthy boundaries are not just important; they are absolutely necessary. If you don’t set boundaries, both personally and professionally, you will ultimately only hurt yourself. But where do you begin?

With lockdown restrictions being slowly eased and some of us returning to the workplace, how will our working lives change? Will we embrace remote work as the new way forward or will we at least have some flexibility regarding our working life? 

Things change all the time - whether it’s a huge worldwide pandemic or something on a much smaller scale – nothing stays the same. We can either hold onto our fears so that they fester and take over us, or we can let them go and break out of our comfort zone to try something new.