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Pros and Cons of Virtual Assistants

C-Suite Assistants

If you plan to hire a virtual executive assistant, you must decide if you need someone in the same time zone as yourself. Many prefer a virtual assistant in the same time zone. However, this choice can vary depending on the size of your company, the number of employees, and if it is operating across several time zones.

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The Future of the Administrative Profession

Office Dynamics

They can be project managers, ambassadors of their manager’s vision, and more. Being confident, prepared and honing your skills is a great way to handle this. How skilled are you in handling “offsite” support across time zones? It’s changed a lot since taking a letter and pouring coffee of forty years ago.

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Leading and Working with a Multi-VA Team

Denise Aday

A few critical components and my key takeaways from the discussion: Project management – Whether it’s Basecamp, Central Desktop or another project management tool, have a way for everyone to easily collaborate and track client projects. One project is for “Team Aday&# itself. So not a “staff meeting”.

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The Full Interview - The Person Behind the Professional

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

And as I climbed the admin ladder, when I got recruited for a project manager role, the person who referred me was also someone I had met when I was “just a temp” stuffing those thousands of envelopes. The kicker was, since the event was international, there was a time zone difference.