How To Manage Your Time More Effectively With A Virtual Assistant
If you’re struggling to manage your time more effectively, you’re not alone. It’s official; we’ve been living through a pandemic for an entire year now. We’ve had to change our routines, adjust our expectations, and realign our goals to consider these circumstances...
How to Handle Clients When You’re Out of the Office
One thing that challenges new entrepreneurs in service-based businesses is how to handle taking time off. What happens to your clients when you go on vacation or on medical leave? Do they just do without you for a while, or do you have someone cover them? Do you...
Bad Meeting Behaviors and How to Stop Them
We’ve all been in meetings where attendees were “misbehaving.” Disengaged, looking at their phones, typing emails, texting, whispering to one another - just generally not paying attention or participating. If this happens to you all the time, it may be that your...
How to Delegate Your Email to Your Assistant
Most busy executives and entrepreneurs feel like they’re drowning in a sea of unread emails when they look at their inbox. They see the number of unread emails, and their blood pressure instantly shoots up! They scroll through their inbox looking at the senders’...
3 Strategies That Will Help You Shift into a Growth Mindset
Whether it’s in business or the world of psychology, you’re probably familiar with the terms ‘growth mindset’ and ‘fixed mindset’. The term “mindset” refers to the learned and established set of attitudes you’ve adopted over time. A growth mindset is the attitude that...
How to Use the End-of-Year Lull to Get Ready for Next Year
I've eaten the turkey. (Well, prime rib because I don't like turkey.) I shopped until I dropped. (Hides Amazon boxes from hubby...) We decorated and shared good cheer. (With a mask, and socially distanced.) We wrapped and unwrapped. (Or used gift bags, because,...
How to Figure Out What Tasks to Turn Over to a VA
I often meet with a new prospect whose first question is, “What all can you do for me?” These entrepreneurs are busy, over-worked, and overwhelmed with all they have to do. They know the way they’re operating isn’t sustainable, let alone scalable. They are doing...
Why You Hate Meetings and What You Can Do About It (Part 2 of 2)
As we discussed in the last post, the key to keeping meetings on track and productive is in NOT discussing problems the moment they arise, as counter-intuitive as that may seem. The best way to resolve issues is to put them on a list as they come up and discuss them...
Why You Hate Meetings and What You Can Do About it (Part 1 of 2)
Recently, the IVAA Board of Directors adopted the method of meeting and solving issues discussed in this article. The results have been nothing short of amazing! During our last meeting, the members present all agreed that we had accomplished more in the last hour...