The PERFECT Employee

The day has come when your workload is taking over your life, you’re not spending as much time with your family and friends as you would like, but you don’t want to stop the momentum now that your business is starting to grow. 

You know you need to get help - but how do you go about finding someone to delegate all those time consuming tasks to, someone who you can trust with your confidential business information, who will take a proactive approach to helping you build your business, and who you can truly rely on to support you when you need them most?

These must be the attributes of the PERFECT employee…

• Dedicated to enhancing your business and work/life balance.
• Has years of office experience gained from working across a broad spectrum of industries.
• Used to getting to know a business quickly and becoming effective in a short space of time.
• Flexible, motivated and with a can-do attitude.
• Well versed in time management and able to juggle a number of tasks at one time.
• Organised and committed to quality. 
•  Needs only minimal supervision.
• Enjoys being proactive and finding time saving solutions.
• Happy to have their hours increased or reduced at short notice.
• Does not require paid holidays, breaks or costly employee benefits.
• Requires no office, desk, computer or the heating turned up when it’s cold.
• Doesn’t complain if the work is mundane.
• Is not looking for a career path.

This is exactly what you get and more if you use a Virtual Assistant like those at The Paperwork Team. Not only do you have the PERFECT employee, but you also spare yourself the associated hassle and costs of dealing with HMRC, PAYE schemes and National Insurance contributions. Maybe a VA is not the solution for every business, however it might just be worth having a conversation and discussing the possibilities. 

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Blogging

What is it all about?

Well I have decided to go ahead PERFECT or not, we all have to start somewhere.

So what to blog about: - I could promote The Paperwork Team, disclose some useful hints and tips, share the years experiences I have; or I could do something slightly different, a little light relief from the daily routine.

This got me thinking about what other professions might do and what they might blog about. Take for instance an undertaker, a pathologist or a night security guard in a museum. What would their story be?

Have a look at this blog - Confessions of an undertaker www.calebwilde.com great writing, informative, humorous and a really good read; yet it is on a subject that most of us choose not to think about. These pieces of writing give the undertaker a personality, a feeling that you know him without even meeting him and that he takes his job seriously but is also human.  Shame he is in America or I might think of contacting him when the need arises.

If an undertaker can make his business sound interesting then what is to stop the rest of us?

What are your favourite blogs?

The best they could possibly be

There were lots of outstanding moments during the Olympics that will never be forgotten, however for me there was one interview that really made me think about how the lessons learned by TeamGB could be used to benefit us all. 

In an interview with Gary Lineker, Dave Brailesford, coach to the GB cycling team, talked about their successes in the cycling events. Gary asked Dave whether he would be interested in coaching a football team for a change, and if the principals he applied to the cycling could be used successfully in other sports.

Dave’s response was that his job was to help the team be “the best they could possibly be”, which he felt could be applied to any sport by applying the principle of “Marginal Gains”. This science looks at every minute element of everything involved in the whole process; not just the obvious things like diet, exercise and dedication, but also the less apparent elements of the process.  He gave examples of how athletes could improve their posture and sleep by always using the same pillow and taking it with them when they move from hotel to hotel.  Hygiene, how they could reduce the chances of infection and illness by knowing how to wash their hands properly, using dye to show the bits that are sometimes missed.  The list goes on.  Each element would be analysed and broken down, and a plan put together to improve each by just a small percentage. All these small improvements when combined add up to make a significant improvement to performance.  The results speak for themselves – 14 medals.

What a fantastic way to look at not just sport but life and business - making small changes to the things we do every day in order to improve our overall success.

Dave Brailesford – Inspirational!

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Could this be you?

I recently attended an @WarwickTweetUp Twitter training session.  I came away feeling inspired by all the stories of networking from the comfort of my own home, of winning business by being myself and being “out there” on Twitter.  I follow Twitter daily and enjoy the personalities and the stories that they tell, but am I capable of producing interesting and worthwhile content?  Who will want to follow me?

What shall I Tweet?  What shall I blog about? What do I have to say that hasn’t already been said or that's worth reading?

Outwardly I may appear confident, however I have this thing in my head that says, “Everything has to be perfect” – “Don’t do it unless you can be sure you'll get it exactly right”, “What if people don’t like you?”, “Can you risk being criticised?”

So – what do I do?  Do I let this fear hold me back? I was hoping as I got older, (I am definitely on the other side of 40 now), that age would give me confidence and that I would grow out of feeling this way, but it doesn’t seem to have happened yet.  So, do I carry on and follow my heart and write anyway, or do I just carry on sitting on the fence watching others, hoping that one day I will wake up inspired, without reservations and PERFECT?

WATCH THIS SPACE!

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Making time for YOU!

Every company has its own unique way of handling its back office procedures.  We can offer a tailor-made, efficient and professional solution to your every day business issues.

We are completely flexible in our approach - You may need our service for a few hours a month, a day a week or perhaps you would just like help with a one off challenge.  Our charges reflect the actual time we spend on getting your job done.