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Here are the top six amazing tips on becoming a more productive virtual assistant.
Create your work environment:
As a virtual assistant, you know you’d be working from home and that means there will be distractions. Being the eldest sibling and a full-time VA, I often have to work late nights right after putting my siblings at sleep (one is a four, and the other is a six-year-old).The best practices would be:
- Lock yourself into a room with all necessities and refreshments
- Pick the room with an attached washroom, if possible
- Invest in a proper work table as well as chair
- Spend more time on YouTube and learn courses on different skillsets
Familiarize yourselves with tools:
Let’s say you’ve made that sweet work environment and you’ve settled down to work. There could be multiple agendas to be covered, and that’s how VA’s entirely forget about living a social lifestyle.To prioritize work, there are tools you should be using such as
- GSuite
- HubStaff
- Trello
- Slack
- Calendly
- Skype
Meanwhile, developers are coming up with tools for turning a VA’s life easier.
Essentials for an ideal workspace:
When you’re working as a VA, you’re not self-reliant completely. A productive VA will need to make sure he has his essentials in place before getting started.- You must ensure a perfectly functioning laptop
- Reliable internet connection
- An abundant supply of coffee
However, there are added functionalities in software if you choose to opt for the paid version of an app. Address all these to have an uninterrupted workflow whenever you need to work.
Self-motivation is the key:
When you’re working from home there isn’t going to be anybody to monitor your work, except HubStaff’s time tracking software if you’re working on an hourly basis.- Hit the gym routinely
- Read, read and read again!
- Must realize that inefficiency will lead to unemployment
- Have proper sleep
- Set goals and achieve them
Set goals, improve yourself to attain them, and set higher goals again so you’re able to reach greater heights for a successful career.
Read emails carefully:
Emails will become the next most frequently used means of communication once you get hired as a virtual assistant.Clients will often state crucial details regarding projects in the form of emails; therefore, you need to be patiently reading through the lines for understanding their requirements better.
Read emails at least twice to make sure that you haven’t missed out anything. As a result, do not hesitate to ask questions while replying/responding to the person’s message.
Sleep is NOT for the weak:
The most productive work comes from properly rested minds.Virtual assistants don’t usually work around the clock as they have to be working at the same timezone as their supervisor. Therefore, make sure you have adequately rested before initiating the next shift.
Seven hours of sleep is mandatory for a perfectly calculative mind; otherwise, it’ll be very likely that you’d be forgetting your core responsibilities.