During this time, after 60 days, your virtual assistant already knows the specific tasks, company processes, and company culture. Setting up the person for success, there’s still a lot to learn. And as you plan, here are the points to remember, what to learn, and what to expect continuing the next 90 days with your virtual assistant:
Fully Integration with The Team After 90 Days
After your virtual assistant is fully aligned with your company and is able to build strong connections with the other team members, you can expect high-quality work. With successful integration, here are the advantages of maintaining a healthy work-life balance:
- Your virtual assistant will naturally develop skills through the community built and goals set that align with the organizational goals. Thus, working remotely makes it easier to transfer skills as well as to empower in upskilling.
- A flexible schedule means less turnover and increased productivity. With flexible working hours, your virtual assistant is more likely to be less tired and accordingly, will lead to work longer hours than they would otherwise. Therefore, your virtual assistant is more expectedly to stay a loyal employee because of the work-life balance.
- Aside from the flexible schedule, there is more work freedom which means your virtual assistant has an option to work anywhere comfortable –could it be in the bedroom, dining table, during travel, or even in a favorite coffee shop.
- Another highly effective strategy you can use to support the physical and mental health of your virtual assistant is to encourage them to take breaks while you make sure that you assign realistic timelines and achievable goals for their tasks. You may opt to set up a time for socialization by having interactive team activities.
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Working Independently and Collaboratively with Others
By this time, with the training you offered during the previous months, your virtual
assistant has strong time management skills and could already work
independently and collaboratively. Here are some of the other skills that your virtual assistant possesses:
Self-motivation and Discipline
Staying motivated is one of the hardest challenges for any virtual assistant, but with the time you invested in motivating your workforce, your virtual assistant now developed self-discipline. No need to consistently remind about meeting deadlines despite the freedom that the nature of the job offers.
Effective Decision-Making Skills
Your virtual assistant now has the ability to choose between possible solutions to a problem through concentrating on what’s more important, analyzing strategically rather than “just solving the problem.” Also, your virtual assistant is now capable of implementing decisions systematically through organizing relevant information.
Habit of Continuous Learning
Learning continuously helps an individual adapt to unexpected changes. With the ongoing training you offer, your virtual assistant at this moment may appear to be self-motivated in acquiring knowledge. This love for continuous learning will also help develop your virtual assistant’s leadership skills. Therefore, as your virtual assistant becomes more competent or skilled at a certain task, simultaneously, confidence grows.
Handling Multiple Tasks and Priorities Effortlessly
As a small business owner, it is natural to fall into the trap of juggling too many tasks all at the same time which could be stressful and may limit productivity. Thus, done inefficiently, tasks are never completed. Since you have been continuously training your virtual assistant, you are not alone in that struggle. With the skills developed, your virtual assistant will help you move your business forward.
Effectively managing multiple tasks and priorities is one of the skills your virtual assistant has learned and is expected to continuously develop in the next 90 days. It could be challenging to switch from one task to another and may even cause an individual to slow down due to distractions. But what’s great to know is that your virtual assistant, with your help, can now handle things seamlessly. To help you further keep everything in place, here are some of the tips to remember:
Collect the list of tasks and prioritize the more important work first. As Stephen Covey cited in his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People “Put First Things First.”
- Delegate tasks positively by assigning the responsibility to the most qualified, the one who can do the job right.
- Choose who has the best experience and skills for that certain task then ask for ideas.
- Set an achievable deadline. From time to time, take note of the progress made to have a documented workflow.
- With an efficient workflow, ensure all tasks are completed in a timely manner.
Final Thoughts
During the 90 days journey, you may be asking yourself if what you’ve done is enough. The truth is, it’s continuous training and you have to keep the work going. With all the efforts made, the stresses encountered, and the struggles overcome, you will be successful in the long run. Give yourself a break, don’t stop, and just keep going. Whenever you encounter a roadblock during the process, view the obstacle as an opportunity and always keep your eyes on the finish line. There is no magic formula for hiring the right virtual assistant, it will really depend on your structured strategies and well-thought plan of action.