Maximize your productivity and achieve your goals by delegating tasks effectively. Our guide offers practical advice on effective delegation techniques.
In part 1, I introduced you to the five phases of performance support and a video recording example to get you thinking about embedding support into your work environment. You’ve most likely experienced this scattered information approach, since it’s common today. Eg. Instead of going to a manual drawer, finding a manual, and then searching […]
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Ever wondered ‘How can we improve our performance’, ‘I wish we could boast best practice’ or ‘How can we scale up our operations with quality’? Of course you have, and chances are; this article can help you….. Whether for yourself, your new employee or a virtual assistant, performance support tools must not be neglected. Performance
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If you feel like you’re at capacity, constantly making the same decisions, troubleshooting, fire-fighting and just too hands-on to take a break, chances are you need to give up. Not the business—though I often have clients come to me just about ready to throw in the towel—but all the day-to-day tasks that aren’t really management
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Over the years I’ve met many entrepreneurs in various stages of their business. But they all have something in common – they are spending crazy amounts of energy sorting out time consuming, niggly, operational issues. And still the work keeps piling up! Of course, we all know this inevitably leads to feelings of stress and
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What a lot of people don’t realise is that Feng Shui Consultants deal with a lot of factors, like a mix of geography, architecture, ecology, spirituality, psychology and physiology – all when they do a consultation. Whilst this ancient science was documented over 4000 years ago, the art of placing buildings and objects to achieve
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As you may know, email marketing is one of the most popular ways businesses reach out to their customers. Efficient and cost-effective, it is also a great method to obtain leads to potential customers. But with Google’s new tabbed inbox and prominent unsubscribe option, experts believe that they have the potential to affect email marketing
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Hands up who gets distracted at work? Depending on your workplace or industry, there are many types of distractions that barrage us every day, clamouring for attention and breaking your focus. Completing a task well, no matter what it is, requires a certain amount of time and concentration – if your mind is all
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It looks like business owners now have more reasons to implement or strengthen their mobile marketing campaigns. A recent study conducted by Google has underscored the importance of “going mobile” if you want to attract more customers and generate bigger revenues. According to the search giant, 50% of mobile users are most likely to visit
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Having spent years building my business in this industry, I get to meet and talk with A LOT of people, which is great, because I love a good chat! After a while you begin to pick up on common reservations business owners experience when they first consider outsourcing a Virtual Assistant. Most recognise that they
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Returning to work after my holiday over the Easter/ANZAC long weekend has been an eye opener! I went from relaxed, contemplative bliss to straight back into meetings, emails, calls and the general chaos of business! But I did realise one thing – while I was gone the wheels kept on spinning! I left Virtual Elves
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Google Analytics is a very important tool every website owner should take advantage of. It lets you keep track of the overall performance of your site, find out where traffic is coming from, and obtain some very useful information about your audience. But did you know that you can also use Google Analytics to see
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As a business owner, you’ve probably recognised the necessity of being ‘present’ in your business. You need to be around to make decisions, delegate and strategise how best to build your brand. But clocking 80-hour work weeks month after month is an unreasonable expectation! So how can you carve out a better work/life balance for
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