How Delegation Saves You Time, Money, & Stress
Hey, solopreneur: with no one to hand the busywork off to, there’s a good chance you’re reaching the limit of your productivity capability as a lone executive. Delegation helps you stay focused on the bigger picture at work by freeing your schedule from the smaller “less significant” tasks. Virtual Executive Assistants (VEAs) help you save time and money by increasing productivity and providing problem-solving. Worxbee Virtual Executive Assistants are specifically trained to help conquer those delegated tasks. Here are a few ways delegation saves you time, money, and stress.
It frees you to focus on priorities
One of the most critical roles of an executive is establishing a vision for the company. Smaller, more menial tasks can cloud the vision of even the most visionary leaders. Day-to-day busywork hinders the creative process of big-picture thinking. Executives need to use “creative space” to think with focus—or expansively!—about a situation or the future. Problem-solving requires thinking time, and Virtual Executive Assistants free up your schedule to do more of it.
It gives you more time in your day
A Virtual Executive Assistant can lighten your calendar by handling the minor (yet significant) things on your to-do list. Empowering your executive assistants with trust and authority allows them to make decisions on your behalf. This stops you from becoming the bottleneck in decision-making. Fewer interruptions and shorter conversations mean more time back for you (and more time for coffee breaks and vacations, too).
It shares the load so you don’t do it all
As a solopreneur, you won’t be able to do everything in a day. Some things are bound to fall through the cracks. But with a Virtual Executive Assistant, you’ll be able to tackle large projects through collaboration. Delegation allows multiple people to do smaller, more bite-sized tasks with excellence, rather than one person doing numerous tasks with rushed ambition.
It helps shape a training process
There may come a time when you need to hire an employee. Delegation pinpoints a process for training new hires. As you delegate tasks to your Virtual Executive Assistant ask your VEA to maintain a document with a record of how to do the tasks. When it comes time to hire an employee, you’ll have a detailed description of how to do the job. Use this checklist as a training manual for the next person. Now your Virtual Executive Assistant has more time in their day, too!
It reduces stress on you
Most importantly, delegation saves you the stress of having to juggle multiple things on your plate. Virtual Executive Assistants can do many things for you and your business—here’s a brief rundown of just a few:
Scheduling or moving meetings
Making phone calls
Preparing trips for business
Budgeting or bookkeeping
Initial brainstorming for projects
Finalizing or drafting paperwork
Worxbee assists with those delegated tasks
At Worxbee, we strive to ensure you are poised for success with your Virtual Executive Assistant experience. Our focus is to develop and deliver key resources to our Virtual Executive Assistants and the leaders they support. If you’re ready to delegate and get back the time and money you deserve, then contact Worxbee to set up an intro call. See for yourself how Worxbee is making business better for the future.
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